Posted inCritical Minerals Governance & Transparency The Corridor of Promise: Can Lobito Deliver a New Path for Africa’s Minerals? From Angola’s Atlantic coastline to the copper belts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, a rail corridor is… Posted by Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk June 9, 2025Tags: Angola, critical minerals, DRC, energy transition, EnergyTransitionAfrica, infrastructure, just transition, Lobito Corridor, mineral strategy, ValueAddition, Zambia
Posted inCommunity Impact Beneath the Surface: How Zambia’s Mining Disaster Exposes the Human Cost of the Energy Transition On a quiet morning last month, disaster struck in Zambia’s Copperbelt. A tailings dam at a Chinese-owned copper mine burst,… Posted by Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 27, 2025Tags: CopperMining, CriticalMinerals, CriticalMineralsAfrica, EnergyTransitionAfrica, EnvironmentalJustice, EthicalMining, SustainableAfrica, ZambiaMining
Posted inCommunity Impact Critical Minerals Africa’s New Scramble: The High Cost of Critical Minerals Without Justice I once stood at a dusty roadside in Kolwezi, in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s copper and… Posted by Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 23, 2025Tags: AfricaMining, CriticalMinerals, EnergyTransitionAfrica, EthicalMining, GreenEnergyJustice, ResourceJustice, ValueAddition
Posted inEnergy Transition Green Goals, Grey Areas: The Politics of China-Africa Energy Relations A few years ago, during a civil society exchange in Nairobi, a Kenyan energy advocate told me something that has… Posted by Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 16, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, AfricaTransition, BRI, ChinaAfricaRelations, CriticalMineralsAfrica, EnergyTransitionAfrica, FOCAC, GreenEnergyPolitics, renewable energy Africa, RenewableEnergyAfrica, ValueAddition