Tag: Value Addition
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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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🇧🇫 17 Billion CFA Cotton Processing Project Set to Transform Textile Manufacturing and Create Thousands of Jobs
A major 17 billion CFA franc investment is set to expand cotton processing and textile manufacturing, with projected annual production of millions of meters of fabric, garments, T-shirts, knitwear and socks. The project is expected to create 600 direct jobs and approximately 15,000 indirect jobs, strengthening local value addition and Africa’s industrial textile sector.