Acid spill at Zambian copper mine owned by a Chinese company contaminates major river, threatening millions. Authorities fear long-term damage to environment.

About 60% of Zambia’s 20 million people live in the Kafue River basin and depend on it in some ... which include Zambia’s neighbors Congo and Zimbabwe, has often been criticized, even as ...

KITWE, Zambia — Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of ...

Regions of tax-free commerce and free navigation, particularly in the Congo and Niger River basins ... establish his personal control of the Congo Basin. No African leader was present.

As you can see, the river is nothing but mud ... of forest. It is part of the Congo Basin and it’s home to many protected species. Its net annual absorption of CO2 is six times greater than ...

Salonga National Park is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. Situated at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, the park is very isolated and accessible only by water. It is the ...

He stressed that the Nile River is not ... involving seven Nile Basin countries – Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – to seek a ...

River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine - 50 million litres of waste have flowed into the ...