Climate finance is becoming a contest for batteries, minerals, exports and industry. Morocco, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria show what is at stake.
Critical minerals have become a focal point of U.S.–China competition. The bigger question for Africa is whether it can capture more processing, manufacturing and economic value before another extractive cycle takes hold.
In parts of Africa, railways are being rehabilitated, ports are expanding, power lines are stretching across borders, and industrial corridors, once stalled by finance and politics, are re-entering...
Africa’s minerals are no longer peripheral to the global economy. They now sit at the centre of the clean-technology transition that will define industrial power in the twenty-first century. Lithium,...
Africa’s minerals have long been exported raw, but new corridors could turn them into a strategic asset, reshaping value, infrastructure and the energy transition.
For much of the last decade, the global energy transition was framed as a technical exercise, a matter of replacing fossil fuels with renewables, coal plants with solar farms, and internal combustion...
For years, Africa has been described as a continent rich in minerals but poor in manufacturing. A place where the world mines, ships and profits, while local communities wait for trickle-down...
I have walked through towns where the ground is rich, but the people are not. Places where the earth underneath your feet could power the world’s clean-energy future, yet the homes beside the road...
When the world talks about the clean-energy transition, Africa suddenly finds itself at the centre of the conversation. Not because we are the world’s largest emitters, we are not. And not because we...
As a continent, we sit on the world’s largest reserves of cobalt, manganese, platinum, lithium and graphite. the very minerals that make electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar batteries and green...
Africa’s critical minerals are once again in the global spotlight, but not only for what is being mined, but also for what is not being made. As the clean-energy transition accelerates, African...
Africa’s critical minerals are once again in the global spotlight, this time not for what’s being dug up, but for how it’s being financed. Last week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)...