Zambia, Africa’s second-largest copper producer, is on track to exceed 1 million tons of copper output in 2026, building on a record-breaking year in 2025 when production climbed by 8% to nearly 890,3

Zimbabwe has achieved a significant milestone in its external trade performance in 2025, with the annual trade deficit contracting to just USD 404 million, the lowest in the past five years and a dram

The World Platinum Investment Council entered 2026 forecasting a broadly balanced platinum market. It has now revised that forecast to a 240,000 ounce deficit. That revision,  from balance to deficit,

Zimbabwe's cereal imports rose sharply in February 2026, according to the latest data from ZimStat. Maize imports surged 48.3% to US$44.93 million from US$30.28 million in January, while wheat imports

ZimStat, Zimbabwe's national statistics agency, has reversed its prior month trade position for February 2026, reclassifying what it had previously reported as a USD 46.5 million surplus into a defici

Zimbabwe's latest trade data for March 2026 shows that cereals were the fourth-largest import category in Zimbabwe's goods trade faccounting for 7.8% of a total import bill of USD 1.074 billion,  equi

Zimbabwe's semi-manufactured gold exports have generated USD 426.6 million in March 2026, equivalent to 45.8% of the country's total goods export value of USD 932.0 million for the month, according t

Zimbabwe has spent USD 881.7 million importing electricity between January 2021 and March 2026, according to a monthly import series derived from ZimStat External Trade Statistics. The cumulative fig

Gold has closed May 2026 at USD 4,546 per troy ounce, a 1.4% monthly decline, according to the World Gold Council. The metal finished lower in most major currencies, with the exceptions of India and T

Zimbabwe's April 2026 diesel import bill reached USD 132.5 million, a 44.6% increase from March 2026's USD 91.6 million and the highest monthly value recorded from December 2022 through April 2026, a

Zimbabwe's 2025/26 soyabean harvest reached 119,067 metric tonnes from 56,562 hectares harvested, according to the Second Round Crop, Livestock and Fisheries Assessment Report presented to Cabinet on

TSL Limited, Zimbabwe's only listed group whose commercial footprint spans agricultural chemicals, tobacco sales floors, packaging, end-to-end logistics, and property, is set to become the country's l