Category: Legal Desk Weekly Column

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT: Interrogating proposed amendments and What it Means for responsible Large-scale Land-based Investments in Zambia-Part 2

The Amendment introduces new definitions of “environmental assessment” as the process of evaluating the potential positive and negative effects that a proposed project might have on sustainable environmental management, and…
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The Environmental Management Act: Interrogating proposed amendments and what it means for responsible large-scale land-based investments in Zambia -PART I

In this week’s Monday Opinion, we examine the proposed amendments to the Environmental Management Act and their implications for responsible land-based investments. We explain the necessity of advancing such investments,…
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Understanding Zambia’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Law: A Crucial Step Towards Transparency in the Mining Sector – Part II

In this week’s Monday Opinion, we introduced the topic of understanding Zambia’s benenficial ownership laws as a crucial step towards transparency in the mining sector. This week, we continue the…
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Understanding Zambia’s Beneficial Ownership Law: A Crucial Step Towards Transparency in the Mining Sector – Part I

Zambia’s mining sector serves as a critical pillar of its economy, offering immense potential for growth and development. However, the sector has been plagued by challenges such as opacity, corruption,…
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THE CASE OF TOBACCO USE IN ZAMBIA:Why Zambia Needs to Pass a Tobacco Control Law.

Despite the widelu known health risks associated with tobacco consumption, the use of tobacco continues to increase in Zambia. By 2025, the world health organization (WHO) estimaes that there will…
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The Public Debt Management Act: A Solution to Zambia’s Debt Crisis? PART II

In last week’s Monday Opinion, we introduced the discussion leading up to the enactment of the Public Debt Management Act (the “PDMA”) by highlighting some of the weaknesses of its…
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Mapping Zambia’s progress towards domesticating the WHO framework Convention on Tobacco Control -Part 2

Even though tobacco has continued to kill approximately 7 million people annually, the tobacco industry still exerts a relentless push to sell close to 6 trillion cigarettes per year. To…
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The Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act: Why the Need for Change So Soon?

In last week’s Monday Opinion, we looked at a newly enacted law – the Children’s Code Act, which we stated that if well implemented, has the potential to address a…
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THE CHILDREN’S CODE ACT: High-Way to Progressivity?

This week’s Monday Opinion examines the Children’s Code Act, No.12 of 2022, a recently enacted piece of law. For the first time in the country’s history, there is a comprehensive…
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