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Zambian copper industry crisis

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The economic slowdown has made a big impact on the copper industry in Zambia, with more than 1,000 people losing their jobs at one mine alone.

The BBC's Komla Dumor has visited Luanshya copper mine which closed in December 2008 and describes what he saw.

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