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In Africa’s Mining Towns, I’ve Seen Wealth Leave and Dust Remain
I have walked through towns where the ground is rich, but the people are not. Places where the earth underneath…
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Africa’s Critical Minerals Boom Won’t Change Our Future Unless We Build Factories Not Just Mines
When the world talks about the clean-energy transition, Africa suddenly finds itself at the centre of the conversation. Not because…
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Tags: Africa industrialisation, critical minerals, EV Batteries, Mining, renewable energy transition, value addition
Tags: Africa industrialisation, critical minerals, EV Batteries, Mining, renewable energy transition, value addition
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Southern Africa: The Critical Minerals Anchor of the Global Energy Transition
When the World Economic Forum released its recent analysis on the role of Southern Africa in the global energy transition,…
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Tags: Africa industrialisation, community benefits, critical minerals, green hydrogen, just energy transition, mining policy, Namibia lithium, platinum, renewable energy transition, resource governance, SADC cooperation, Southern Africa, sustainable development, value addition, Zambia cobalt, Zimbabwe lithium
Tags: Africa industrialisation, community benefits, critical minerals, green hydrogen, just energy transition, mining policy, Namibia lithium, platinum, renewable energy transition, resource governance, SADC cooperation, Southern Africa, sustainable development, value addition, Zambia cobalt, Zimbabwe lithium
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Beyond Raw Minerals: Can Africa Benefit from Its Critical Mineral Wealth?
In Kolwezi, in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the earth gives way to cobalt-rich soil. Every…
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Tags: Africa, artisanal mining, cobalt, critical minerals, DRC, Ghana, green transition, lithium, resource nationalism, Sierra Leone, value addition
Tags: Africa, artisanal mining, cobalt, critical minerals, DRC, Ghana, green transition, lithium, resource nationalism, Sierra Leone, value addition
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Africa’s Resource Revolution: How Raw Minerals Are Becoming Gold Mines for Local Value
Africa is in the midst of a quiet revolution. One that sees nations taking a firmer hold over the minerals…
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Tags: Africa, critical minerals, economic sovereignty, just transition, mineral exports, resource nationalism, value addition
Tags: Africa, critical minerals, economic sovereignty, just transition, mineral exports, resource nationalism, value addition
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Why Africa Must Stop Exporting Wealth: The Case for Processing Our Own Minerals
“If we keep selling the raw and buying the refined, we’ll always be poorer than we are rich.” That line,…
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Tags: Africa mining, beneficiation, critical minerals, energy transition, green economy, industrialisation, jobs, value addition
Tags: Africa mining, beneficiation, critical minerals, energy transition, green economy, industrialisation, jobs, value addition
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