Maputo — Zambia's Minister of Energy, Matthew Nkhuwa, has revealed that Mozambique's publicly owned electricity company EDM is owed 70 million US dollars for energy supplied during 2015 and 2016.
Zambia has an energy deficit of around 900 megawatts which leads to power cuts lasting over 15 hours a day. The country is working with Mozambique and South Africa to import electricity to cover some of this deficit, despite having run up unpaid debts.
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