Zambia’s Kwacha Falls as Drought Fuels Higher Import Costs
- Zambia is importing electricity and corn to cushion deficits
- Effects of an El Niño-induced drought weakening kwacha
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Zambia’s worst drought in over a century is driving the kwacha toward record lows.
The currency weakened for the past 13 sessions against the US dollar, its longest slide in six months. It weakened 0.1% to to 27.2843 per dollar by 4 p.m. local time on Monday, hovering around levels last seen in May, when it hit a record low of 27.4250.