The latest wave of bullish commentary about the continent recycles familiar blind spots. A decade after "Africa Rising" faded, the real prerequisites for transformation remain stubbornly...
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s investment landscape tells a story of striking contradictions. Extractive industries – mining, oil, gas, and the minerals powering the global energy transition...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not a nation waiting to be discovered. It is one already doing the heavy lifting - for the world's...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent weeks, the island of Greenland has become a hot international topic. It has been at the top of the agenda for...
By Lailla Mutajogera If Europe hasn’t delivered the returns you were chasing, it may be time to redirect your attention to West Africa – not impulsively...
By Dishant Shah On paper, Africa is a geological powerhouse. The continent harbors nearly 30 percent of the world’s known reserves of cobalt, lithium, manganese, rare...
By Paul Nantulya Africa is at the center of rising global demand for critical minerals and metals such as lithium, graphite, cobalt, coltan, manganese, platinum, tantalum,...
By Danilo Desiderio A groundbreaking study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, titled “Diversifying European Supply Chains: Can Africa Play a Role?“, argues that...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The uranium used in the creation of the first atomic bombs was largely sourced from the mines of the Lubumbashi area in...
Bloomberg | Zambia plans to establish an investment company that will control at least 30 percent of critical minerals production from future mines. Mines Minister Paul...
By James Boafo, Eric Stemn, Jacob Obodai and Philip Nti Nkrumah Global demand for critical minerals, particularly lithium, is growing rapidly to meet clean energy and...
AfDB | The International Energy Agency projects that manufacturers of clean energy technologies will need forty times more lithium, twenty-five times more graphite, and about twenty...
Reuters | Ghana’s government has approved its first lithium mine run by a subsidiary of Australia-based Atlantic Lithium Limited, the West African country said on Thursday,...
Bloomberg | Ghana approved a green-minerals policy to help manage the exploitation and production of lithium, a step toward tapping into the multibillion-dollar global industry. The...
Bloomberg | Zimbabwe has banned the export of unprocessed raw lithium with immediate effect as part of efforts to have the key raw material in electric-vehicle...
