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Adding Value at Home: Africa’s Drive to Industrialise Its Critical Minerals Sector

The global transition towards clean energy is driving unprecedented demand for critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, copper, graphite, manganese and platinum. These resources are essential for electric vehicle batteries,.

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Green Gold: How Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Are Transforming Africa

Africa stands at the centre of one of the most consequential economic transitions of the twenty-first century. As the global economy shifts towards cleaner energy systems, sustainable industrialisation, and climate-resilient.

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The Red Metal Boom: Zambia’s Strategic Role in the Green Energy Future

As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, Zambia is emerging as one of Africa’s most important players in the new energy economy. Driven by rising copper production, renewed investor.

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Zambia Expands Copper and Battery Minerals Investment Drive

Zambia is intensifying efforts to become one of the world’s leading suppliers of copper and critical battery minerals through major mining expansions, new large-scale projects, and investor-friendly reforms aimed at.

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Africa’s Critical Minerals Boom: The Race for Industrial Value Addition

Africa is entering one of the most important economic transitions in its modern history. For decades, the continent exported raw minerals while most of the industrial, technological, and financial value.

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Botswana Deepens Diamond Value Addition Strategy

Botswana is intensifying efforts to strengthen its diamond value addition strategy as the country confronts one of the most challenging periods in the global diamond market in decades. Faced with.

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Can Africa’s Green Minerals Boom Deliver Sustainable Long-Term Prosperity?

A new scramble for Africa is underway. This time, the prize is not gold or oil, but lithium, cobalt, graphite, and rare earth elements, the critical minerals powering electric vehicles,.

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How Namibia Is Rewriting Africa’s Critical Minerals Value Chain

Namibia is strategically repositioning itself, not merely as an exporter of raw materials, but as a major industrial player in the global energy transition. Moving beyond its historically diamond and.

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Managing Artisanal Mining Without State Capture

Across Africa’s mineral belts, a quiet tension defines the future of extraction between millions of artisanal miners digging for survival and powerful networks seeking to control the same resources. For.

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Nigeria Targets Global EV Supply Chain With Lithium

What may appear as a modest wave of lithium discoveries and licence approvals is, in reality, a turning point for Nigeria. The country is moving beyond rhetoric on oil diversification.

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