Africa is bleeding value and wasting away an opportunity to cash in on a ‘new’ class of minerals that are driving the green energy transition.
Are battery minerals the new gold?
Companies should treat artisanal miners as partners, not competitors
At the time I picked interest in mining, these artisanal miners were facing challenges because the large scale miners or licence holders were evicting them from their operational areas.
East Africa walking a tight rope
This past August, I was fortunate to be part of a regional discussion on East Africa’s budding extractives sector that…
Rivers of gold: Karamoja women scrape river beds in search of the precious metal
Karamoja is known for its seasonal rivers. They flood during the rainy season but completely dry up when the rains…