Canada’s Barrick Mining has formally resumed operational control of its gold mine in Mali, ending a two-year standoff that underscored a shifting reality in Africa’s extractive sector: multinational leverage weakens…
By H.E. Ambassador Godfrey Madanhire In December 2025, South Africans watched live broadcasts as police convoys rolled into Bapong, a village in the North West province. Beneath homes and footpaths,…
An aerial view of the Simandou mine, one of the world’s largest high-grade iron ore deposits, located in Guinea’s Nzérékoré Region. Southeastern Guinea has become the focal point of a…
The African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a $23.36 million grant package to enhance electricity access in Bosaso, Somalia, targeting households, small businesses, and vulnerable populations including internally displaced people.…
A freight train carries iron ore from the Nimba deposit along the ‘Liberty Corridor’ to the port of Buchanan, Liberia, for ArcelorMittal © jbdodane/Alamy A proposed US-aligned iron ore supply route…
South Africa has become Israel’s leading supplier of thermal coal after Colombia enacted a full ban on coal exports to the country, reshaping trade flows in a market already under…
Liberia has secured approval from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for a major project aimed at sharply reducing mercury pollution in the country’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector,…
For decades, African policymakers have returned to the same unresolved question: how can the continent extract greater economic value from its mineral wealth rather than exporting raw materials and importing…
Former child mine worker Divine Komba is now a teenager learning to become a mechanic through the Bank-financed school and vocational skills program. As global demand surges for battery-powered consumer…
(Photo: Kaiya project. Source: Sovereign Metals | Twitter.) Australia-based Sovereign Metals has entered into a strategic agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group,…