Zambia

Zambia has moved from being a major copper producer and potentially one of the continent’s richest countries at independence in 1964 to one of the world’s poorest.

A colonial legacy mismanagement debt and disease are said to have contributed to the country’s tribulations.

Politically it switched from colonial government into an era of one-party rule lasting 27 years. A multi-party system emerged in the early 1990s.