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A landlocked country with eight neighbours, the second-largest copper output in Africa, and more arable land than it currently works. The case is structural rather than cyclical.
Zambia borders eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. No coastline, but a position in the middle of a regional market that no coastal neighbour occupies. Goods crossing Southern and Central Africa have a way of crossing Zambia.
The country belongs to both COMESA and SADC and is party to the African Continental Free Trade Area. The Lobito Corridor, the rail link being developed to carry Copperbelt output west to the Atlantic through Angola, is the clearest recent sign that the region is being rewired around Zambian cargo rather than around it.
Two of the three ESA T20 cricket markets — Malawi and Zambia itself — share a border. The third, Rwanda, is a short flight. For a group building a sports and hospitality circuit, that proximity is not incidental.
Up 8 percent on the 825,513 tonnes produced in 2024, and still short of the million tonnes targeted for the year. Zambia is Africa's second-largest copper producer and has set a national ambition of three million tonnes by 2031. Closing that gap is a construction, power and logistics problem long before it is a mining one.
The World Bank's figure for Zambia's arable land. Almost half the population is employed in agriculture, yet the sector contributes 8.2 percent of GDP. Low mechanisation, thin storage and weak market access explain most of that spread, and each of them is something capital can fix.
More neighbours than any other country in the region shares. Combined with COMESA and SADC membership and AfCFTA accession, it makes Zambia a plausible base for regional distribution rather than a purely domestic market of around 20 million people.
Copper figures reported by Reuters via MINING.com, January 2026. Land and agriculture figures from the World Bank's Zambia agricultural brief. Figures are cited as published and are not projections by this company.
Zambia is water-rich on paper. The Zambezi, Kafue and Luangwa basins carry substantial surface water, and the country generates most of its electricity from hydropower. That same dependence is the single largest operating risk an investor faces here: the drought that cut into generation and agricultural output in recent seasons translated directly into load-shedding, higher costs and lost production for anyone running a plant or an irrigation scheme.
We underwrite that explicitly. Power solutions are assumed to be partly self-provided. Irrigation is treated as a requirement rather than an improvement. Kwacha volatility, fuel costs and the working-capital cycle of a long harvest are modelled at the outset. Sovereign debt, currency and commodity-price risk are real and are not talked around.
None of it changes the underlying case. It changes how much you pay, how you build and how long you expect to wait.
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Lower Zambezi, South Luangwa with its walking safaris, Kafue's vast and under-visited plains. Zambian tourism earns foreign currency and, unusually among export sectors, spends a large part of it locally on staff, food, transport and construction.
It is also infrastructure-hungry in exactly the ways this company is built for: access roads, staff housing, cold chain, water treatment, power, and buildings that have to survive a wet season. Add a cricket season to that and the same rooms, coaches and kitchens carry a second stream of demand in a different month of the year.
The SriYentra Group works a Dubai–India–Africa corridor: capital sourced in the Gulf, structured under Emirati and ADGM frameworks, deployed into South Asia and East and Southern Africa.
Zambia sits at the far end of a route the Group already runs. The cricket agreements brought it here; the country's fundamentals are the reason it stayed. A Lusaka-registered company with a Dubai parent is a practical arrangement rather than a clever one: the money knows where it came from, and the asset knows which court it answers to.
We are actively building a Zambian advisory and operating bench. Operators, agronomists, engineers and counsel are welcome to make contact.
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