Category: Africa
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🇺🇬 How to Own a Gold Mine in Uganda: A Practical Guide for African Investors
Uganda is attracting growing interest from African and international mining investors. Here is a practical guide to the legal route for establishing, acquiring or investing in a gold-mining operation in Uganda.
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Mining Question: Why Isn’t More Iron Ore Being Processed at Home?
Liberia’s iron-ore industry raises a fundamental question about the country’s economic future: should Liberia remain primarily a mineral exporter, or use its resources to build domestic processing, steel manufacturing and broader industrial capacity?
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Gold Rush: Who Pays the Price for Mineral Wealth?
Ghana’s Birim Valley sits at the intersection of mineral wealth, livelihoods and environmental pressure. From diamonds to gold, informal and illegal mining — widely known as galamsey — provides income for communities while raising serious concerns about land degradation, water pollution and mineral smuggling. Ghana now faces the challenge of building a formal, traceable and…
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🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇧🇫 Ghana’s $20 Billion Gold Boom: Why Accra Is Pulling Ahead of Mali and Burkina Faso
Ghana’s gold industry is entering a new era. With nearly six million ounces produced in 2025 and gold export earnings reaching about $20.2 billion, Accra is using GoldBod to tighten control over the gold trade, formalise artisanal mining and retain more mineral wealth inside the country. Ghana’s strategy now places it in direct comparison with…
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Mining: From Gold and Platinum to Lithium and a New Era of Mineral Industrialization
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Mining, African Mining, Gold Mining, Lithium, Lithium Mining, Platinum, Platinum Group Metals, Chrome, Ferrochrome, Coal, Diamonds, Critical Minerals, Mineral Resources, Mining Industry, Mining Investment, Mineral Beneficiation, Mining Technology, Artisanal Mining, Small Scale Mining, Great Dyke, Great Dyke Zimbabwe, Manhize Steel, Zimbabwe Economy, African Minerals, Battery Minerals, Energy Transition, Mining Africa, Natural Resources, Industrialization,…
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🇨🇩 NBA Africa to Build 55 Basketball Courts Across DR Congo to Honor Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Africa and Quest Water Global are planning to build or renovate 55 basketball courts across the Democratic Republic of Congo by 2030, honoring late NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo and expanding opportunities for young Congolese athletes.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Increases Jail Term for Preaching in Commercial Vehicles to Eight Months
Ghanaian commercial-vehicle preachers and vendors could face prison terms of up to eight months under reportedly revised road traffic regulations. A public-source intelligence assessment has flagged the development as low confidence and unverified pending confirmation from Ghanaian authorities or the underlying legal instrument.
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🇺🇸 603 Stolen Vehicles, $36 Million: How a North American Car-Theft Network Reached West Africa
A map of documented U.S. source locations linked to recent vehicle-theft investigations shows how stolen cars can move from communities across New Jersey, New York and the Washington, D.C. region toward shipping hubs and overseas markets in West Africa. The map highlights confirmed locations from individual investigations—not the origin of all 603 vehicles seized at…
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🇿🇼 The $1.2 Billion Question: Zimbabwe, Gold, Political Power and the ‘Gold Mafia’
Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation exposed allegations surrounding Zimbabwe’s gold-smuggling networks and a proposed operation to move as much as $1.2 billion in cash into the country. A recorded conversation involving Uebert Angel and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa became one of the investigation’s most controversial episodes, raising questions about political access, diplomatic privileges, gold laundering…
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🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Red Sea Moment: How the Iran War Is Bringing a Once-Isolated Nation Into the Geopolitical Spotlight
Eritrea is emerging from decades of international isolation as the Iran war increases the strategic importance of the Red Sea. With roughly 1,000 kilometers of coastline, access to Massawa and Assab, and growing tensions with Ethiopia, Asmara is gaining new geopolitical significance at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and global maritime trade.