Critical minerals
Critical minerals
Blencowe targets military batteries with Uganda graphite
Blencowe tests Uganda graphite for military batteries with AETC, a US defence award recipient; the record does not confirm Blencowe's role in the award
Financing, not discovery, is Uganda’s real mining challenge
Ahead of the Mineral Wealth Conference, Stanbic Bank Uganda's John Tumwine makes the case for finance as the bridge to mining wealth
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Rich in minerals, poor in processing: Africa’s green-energy dilemma
A World Bank study finds African countries mine transition minerals but rarely process them, limiting industrial and economic gains
Why bartering Africa’s minerals for security is a bad idea
A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda binds the two nations in a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for vague promises of security
Trump’s Africa summit: offshoring the US’s immigration problem?
Last week, US President Donald Trump hosted a mini-summit with five African leaders at the White House, which was surprising given his stance towards the continent
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