(Reuters) - Zambia's finished copper production declined 9.3 percent in the first quarter of 2007 due to flooding in the country's rich copper-belt region, central bank governor Caleb Fundanga said.
Copper output, which is the economic lifeblood of the southern African nation, fell to 114,239 tonnes for the three months ended March from 125,880 tonnes in the same period in 2006, Fundanga said in a press conference late on Thursday.
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