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The Zambian kwacha is the world’s best-performing currency of 2016, the Bloomberg news agency reports.
It says that the Kwacha’s value against the US dollar has risen 19.9% since the beginning of January.
That rise outstrips the increase in the price of gold.
This comes off the back of the kwacha being labelled one of the worst-performing currencies of last year.
That was precipitated by a fall in the copper price, one of the country’s main exports, as well as a power shortage.
Bloomberg quotes an analyst suggesting that the kwacha will continue to rise as the copper price recovers.