LUANSHYA, Zambia -- The global economic meltdown swept into this company town and took down the copper mine in January. It left in its wake a crisis measured in unsold tomatoes at the market ...

Twenty years ago Luanshya, the city that owes its existence to Zambia’s oldest copper mine, was still booming. As early as the 1970s the Copperbelt boasted an indigenous urban middle class.

An earthquake shook Zambia's rich copperbelt on Monday but no casualties or damage were reported, ... "The copperbelt towns of Kalulushi, Luanshya, Kitwe and Ndola experienced the tremors, ...