Domestic
Kitwe City Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe has disclosed that only 15 kilometers out of the 56 kilometers of road works under the Zambia Township Roads Project – ZTRP in Kitwe has been covered, a project which was earmarked for local economic development. Read more: Zambian Business Times
Muchinga Province Minister Malozo Sichone says industrial development is vital towards achieving sustainable economic growth. Read more: ZNBC
The National Association for Small and Medium Contractors of Zambia has appealed to government to speed up the process of adjusting the subcontract policy to thirty percent and making it law. Read more: ZNBC
International
President Donald Trump said Monday that trade talks with China, which had stalled out in May, have “already begun” following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit over the weekend. Read more: CNBC
Qatar Airways’ first flight from Doha to Mogadishu landed at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital on Monday. Read more: Africa News
OPEC and its allies are presenting a unified front in their quest to stabilize the oil market. But beneath the surface, opposition is rising within OPEC against the way that Russia and Saudi Arabia are dominating the group’s decision making. Read more: CNN
The U.S. added more products from the European Union to a list of goods it could hit with retaliatory tariffs in a long-running trans-Atlantic subsidy dispute between Boeing Co. and Airbus SE. Read more: Bloomberg