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Britain gives US $80 million grant for mine

    JOHANNESBURG

    The British government has given Zambia a US $80 million grant to rehabilitate one of the country’s three largest mines, the British embassy in Lusaka said in a statement on Tuesday.

    It said that the money has been lent to the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) to rehabilitate the Nkana mine and its smelter. “The governments of Zambia and the United Kingdom will jointly manage further use of the grant. The repayments will be spent on poverty-reducing measures,” the statement added.

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