Zambia: UK's Marshal Plan brings debt relief, more aid

Zambia is to benefit from Britain's new 'Marshall Plan' for Africa through a new debt-relief and aid package totalling £190 million (US $352.4 million). The UK Department for International Development (DFID) said in a statement that "Benn (Hilary) pledged to cancel all of Zambia's remaining bilateral debt to the UK, once the country reaches completion of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries' (HIPC) initiative by demonstrating progress in tackling poverty".