Zambia

Main article: Africa

Hunger

Economy

GDP $1,450 per capita

Copper mining

Main article: Copper mining and production

2023: 9th in the world in terms of copper production

2022: Copper Belt

2018

Alcohol market

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

R&D

2020: R&D expenses - $101 million

Zambia IT Market

2022: More than 5 startups

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

Consumption

Meat

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption

Cereals

2019: Low rice consumption: 2.9 kg per person per year

Vegetables

2018: Vegetable consumption - 23 kg per capita

Power

Electrification

Energy carriers

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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Foreign trade

2022: China is the biggest export destination

Automobile traffic

Zambia is a left-hand country.

Population

Main article: Population of Africa

Migration

2021: Net population inflow in 4 years

Marriages

Allowed to have more than one spouse

Overweight

Mortality

Traffic safety

Education

Percentage of people who can read

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Part of the population defecates on the street

HIV and AIDS

2020: Zambia accounts for 4.6% of all new HIV infections worldwide

Crime

Prisons

2022: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 8

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

Culture

Superstitions

2020

Nigerian sorcerer blackmails Zambian government

In February 2020, in Zambia, the popular Nigerian prophet Seer1, known in the world as Andrew Ejimadu, said in his video message that he had contributed to the victory in the elections and the coming to power in 2016 of a number of members of the current government of the Patriotic Front, and demanded compensation from ministers, parliamentarians and officials for their supernatural services under threat of death.

Zambian Tourism Minister Ronald Chitotela has already panicked and sent the prophet money, other members of the Cabinet have so far refused to comment on the threats to Seer1. At the same time, pictures of the head of the Ministry of Justice Given Lubinda and other politicians were published on the network, where a ring with a black onyx is clearly visible, which is considered a characteristic attribute of Seer1 followers.

Copperbelt ritual murder epidemic

The entire winter months of 2019-2020 in Zambia in the cities of Chingola and Kitwe, in Copperbelt, an epidemic of ritual killings and accusations of witchcraft is raging. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga, responsible for curbing this madness, told the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the suspects turned into cats when trying to arrest, but the police will continue to look for those responsible, fortunately that witchcraft here is a criminal offense (Article 90 of the Criminal Code), writes telegram channel Zangaro Today.

About invisible forces, spirits and especially - witches and sorcerers, talk in Zambia, albeit not willingly, but so businesslike, specifically and pragmatic that you begin to believe in it. For a long time, sorcerers and witches were considered attributes of the "dark" village, but Zambia brilliantly refutes this prejudice. Witchcraft here is a fact of everyday urban life, it populated the print press and reached prosperous compounds and even government offices. Sorcerers are the reasons for layoffs, betrayals, accidents, failures, riches and career ups, they fly at night on hyenas or beds (sometimes crashed), build ingenious bombs from high-tech parts mixed with herbs and chicken droppings, shoot special cannons with the spirits of ancestors for unlimited distances. The search for witches and sorcerers is a special industry that hunters are engaged in - muchape.

You might think that it's all about the local specificity and darkness of the population. Not a bit. For example, a whole "satanic panic" swept across the United States in the not so far from us in the 1980s. It's just that witchcraft psychoses are especially activated in crisis eras. In general, it is difficult to find a country more gutted than Zambia. Dozens of mixed peoples were squeezed into the borders drawn according to the line, deprived of land and elementary farming skills and forced to extract copper for all Chinese, speaking a couple of times a year at supposedly traditional ceremonies with amusing leaders and plastic masks. Zambia never recovered from the fall in copper prices in the 1980s, which threw the country into the backyards of Modern, into the arms of the melancholic aesthetics of decay.

The heart of this postcolonia is Copperbelt, literally a "copper belt," a disorienting and dirty rusting anthill eaten by poisonous waste and gaping pastes of semi-abandoned mines. A picture that horrifies not only an observer, but also a local resident, sometimes quite educated and aware of the world. Amid the whirlwinds of social antagonisms, neither society nor tradition is felt in the decrepit urbanized Copperbelt.

At the same time, everyone needs to somehow earn a living, some need to justify their own failures, and others need to cash in on their neighbor. Over time, the understanding comes that slums and working-class communities are even thicker than they seem. Without a developed otherworldly bestiary, you can crumble here. Spirits and witches come to the aid of some every day and harm others. Another thing, once called, they are already beginning to influence people - in money transfers, conversations, oblique views, fears and expectations. A whole economy of anxiety and fortune.

2019: Residents smash a police station as one of the officers is named as a half-human, half-male

In August 2019, 59 residents of Chemboli (Zambia) were arrested for assaulting a police station.

The pastor told the local that one of the police officers is an ilomba - a half-man, half-man, responsible for the deaths of people. Residents went to smash the site demanding to extradite the sorcerer.

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