Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying ...

The World Bank’s new report “Mineral Resources of Africa” explores the continent’s mineral wealth and its critical role in powering the global clean energy transition. The report highlights Africa’s ...

Africa holds approximately 30% of the world’s critical mineral reserves, making the continent indispensable to green industrialisation and the global energy transition. However, beyond being a major ...

Aerial view of Kansanshi Copper Mine in northern ZambiaPhotograph courtesy of FQM The journey from tawny earth to copper wire begins with an explosion. Or 2,697 explosions, to be precise. At the 1,100 ...

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development and Chairman of the African Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG), Dr. Dele Alake, has called for the transformation of Africa from a raw mineral supplier to a ...

African countries must stop exporting raw minerals and focus on local processing and manufacturing, if the continent is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and build inclusive, ...

This is the first installment in a five-part series providing data-driven analysis and recommendations to strengthen U.S.-Africa collaboration in the critical minerals sector. Africa has been ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Africa's vast mineral wealth is reshaping global power dynamics in the ...

Extracting mineral resources is key to several African economies. Wikimedia Commons Imagine running a business for over a century without knowing what’s in your warehouse. That’s essentially what many ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday, delivering a pointed critique of the global scramble for Africa’s natural resources and warning against what he described as the “colonisation” of ...

A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a ...