Category: African Business
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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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🇬🇭 🇨🇳 Ghana Opens Direct Cedi-to-Yuan Payment Channel With China, Reducing Reliance on the Dollar
Ghana has launched a direct cedi-to-yuan payment mechanism that allows businesses to settle eligible China trade transactions without using the US dollar as an intermediary. Piloted by Stanbic Bank Ghana, the system uses China’s CIPS network and could reduce settlement times and foreign-exchange costs while strengthening Ghana-China trade.
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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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🇿🇦 Stilfontein: The Miners Trapped Underground and the Rescue That Came Too Late
A deadly confrontation in Stilfontein exposed the human cost of South Africa’s illegal gold-mining economy, as hundreds of miners became trapped underground during a government crackdown. Survivors recount hunger, fear and a desperate struggle for rescue—raising difficult questions about mining, poverty, criminal networks and the future of Africa’s mineral wealth.
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🇿🇦 South Africa Records 43 Suspected Political Killings Ahead of Local Elections
South Africa has recorded 45 politically linked attacks and at least 43 deaths through September 2026, according to GI-TOC data reported by Africanews, as the country approaches its November 4 local government elections.
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🌍 Red, Black and Green Over America: U.S. Cities That Have Raised the Pan-African Flag
Across the United States, cities and public institutions have raised the Pan-African flag to recognize Black history, African heritage, culture, and the African diaspora. From Tracy and Long Beach to Richmond, Hayward, San José, Chula Vista, and Ferndale, these ceremonies have placed the red, black, and green flag in American civic spaces.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Rewrites the Classroom: A New Curriculum for History, Culture and National Identity
Burkina Faso is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its education system, revising curricula and history teaching while expanding national-language instruction, endogenous knowledge, civic education, vocational training and locally produced textbooks. The reform could reach more than 2 million learners through the 2026–2029 REPAIR program, while a growing domestic printing sector aims to give Burkina Faso…