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Zambia's former mines minister jailed for corruption

Lusaka: Zambia's former mines minister Maxwell Mwale was sentenced to one year in jail with hard labour on Friday after being convicted of corruption in the award of licences to a Chinese mining company in 2009.

Mwale, a former cabinet minister in Africa's second-largest copper producer, was found guilty of interfering in the granting of licences to Zhonghui International Mining Group.

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