Tag: Pan-African Development
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🇿🇲 Zambian Women in Mining Push for Fairer Markets and Greater Economic Power
LUSAKA, Zambia — Women in Zambia’s extractive sector are increasingly demonstrating how collective action, technical knowledge and access to markets can transform small-scale mining enterprises and strengthen communities. Among those leading this movement is Aggie, a representative of the Massa Women in Mining Industrial Minerals Cooperative, a women-led enterprise working in Zambia’s mineral sector. Her…
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Ethiopian Airlines Is Becoming Africa’s Global Aviation Powerhouse
For decades, the global aviation conversation has been dominated by airlines from Europe, North America, and the Gulf. Yet one carrier has steadily rewritten the narrative from the heart of Africa. Ethiopian Airlines has evolved from Ethiopia’s national airline into Africa’s largest, most connected, and arguably most influential aviation company. Its rise is more than…
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Liberia’s Lithium Moment: New Survey, Global Interest, and the Test of Resource Sovereignty
Liberia is moving closer to the center of Africa’s critical-minerals conversation. A new China-funded national geological survey, described as the country’s most comprehensive mineral mapping effort in more than 50 years, has renewed attention on lithium, cobalt, uranium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, zinc, silver, and other strategic minerals. For a country historically known for iron ore,…