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Tanzania Holds the Minerals Powering the Global Energy Transition. The Question Is Whether It Extracts Them or Builds an Industry Around Them.

Tanzania is entering one of the most strategically important moments in its modern economic history,...

May 26 18 min

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Africa Holds the Minerals That Power the 21st Century. It Is Still Exporting Them Raw and Importing Back the Value.

Africa's critical minerals endowment is the most consequential resource story of the 21st century fo...

May 5 15 min

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Zambia Has Exposed the Trump Administration's Critical Minerals Strategy for What It Is: Aid as Leverage.

The Trump administration offered Zambia USD 2 billion in health funding while making its conclusion ...

May 4 13 min

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Africa's Critical Minerals Are the Oil of the Twenty-First Century. The Question Is Whether Africa Makes the Same Mistakes Twice.

For half a century, OPEC demonstrated that controlling the world's most essential resource does not ...

Mar 25 18 min

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Tanzania’s Mineral Wealth: The Numbers Behind a Strategic Economic Asset

For Tanzania, the question is no longer whether the minerals exist but how effectively they are conv...

Jan 10 5 min

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Mining Tanzania’s Future: How Reliable Trucks Keep the Sector Thriving

Tanzania’s mining sector is quietly but steadily transforming the nation’s economy. In 2023, the...

Oct 15 3 min

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Magufuli 16% Mining Law: Bold Nationalism or Investor Confrontation?

The spike to 15.3% in Q1 2020 reflected the immediate effect of Magufuli’s reforms. However, as th...

Sep 8 4 min

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Breaking the Dependency: How Tanzanians Can Reduce Reliance on Foreign Mining Firms?

This over-reliance on external actors has limited Tanzania's economic returns, weakened local indust...

Aug 22 3 min

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Tanzania Is Sitting on the Raw Materials of the Global Energy Transition. The Question Is Whether It Extracts Them or Builds an Industry Around Them.

Tanzania holds graphite at Mahenge and Epanko whose battery anode material significance makes it glo...

May 26 14 min

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Africa Supplies the Minerals Powering the Global AI Economy. China Manufactures the Systems Those Minerals Build. That Distinction Is the Most Consequential Economic Gap on the Continent.

Africa supplies many of the raw materials powering the global artificial intelligence economy, with ...

May 22 13 min

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Africa’s Critical Minerals: The Top 10 Resources Powering the Continent’s Industrial Future

Africa’s critical minerals should not be defined only by the anxiety of Beijing, Washington and Br...

May 16 18 min

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Africa's Minerals Are Called Critical. The Real Question Is: Critical to Whom, and Why Not to Africa Itself?

The word critical is doing a great deal of political work in the global conversation about minerals....

Apr 1 13 min