The #42for42 fire trucks protest
When activists in Zambia realised the country was buying 42 fire trucks for $42 million, and found they could be bought for a quarter of the price, they knew they had to act. This is their story.

Sweet Nothings
Sweet Nothings examines the tax practices of one of the world’s largest food multinationals, the Associated British Foods (ABF) group, in Zambia, one of the most impoverished countries in which it

Action for Children's Rights in Education (ACRE) - Success Stories
The purpose of this document is to demonstrate some of the ways the ACRE project teams in each of the six participating countries successfully managed to operationalize the Promoting Rights in Schools

Zambia’s Government must leverage the position of the Creditor Committee
ActionAid Zambia (AAZ) would like to commend the Zambian Government and the Creditor Committee of Zambia, chaired by China, for their important and unprecedented strides towards debt restructuring and

ActionAid Zambia reaffirms its position on the IMF Managing Director’s visit.
Zambia will be expecting the IMF Managing Director alongside the US Treasury Secretary for a high-profile country visit. Against the backdrop of debt distress, the Zambian government reached an

Who Owes Who?
As we enter 2025, 54 countries are in debt crisis, forced to cut their spending on basic public services and climate action in order to pay external debts. Last year, lower income countries between
