China to Invest $2.8 Billion in Zimbabwe in Lithium, Energy
November 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on China’s plans to invest $2.8B in Zimbabwe’s lithium and energy space: UAE is closest rival with $498.5 million investmnet planned Moere than two thirds of investment licenses go to China firms Chinese companies were awarded licenses in the third quarter that could see $2.79 billion of investment flow into […]
Read more »China: ‘Building’ Diplomacy In Africa
October 30th, 2023
Via NewsCentral Africa, a report that Zimbabwe has received its $100 Million Parliament building donation from China: The government of China handed over a new $100 million parliament building to Zimbabwe on Thursday, said to have been constructed and funded by China through a grant. The new parliament building, which stands gallantly on the outskirts […]
Read more »Carbon Offset Market Faces Chaos as African Mega-Project Collapses
October 29th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a look at how the breakup of the partnership behind one of the world’s biggest carbon projects in Zimbabwe raises new doubts about the carbon market’s ability to backstop failures: The integrity of one of the largest single sources of credits in the $2 billion carbon market faces serious doubt following the collapse of the partnership […]
Read more »Zimbabwe’s ‘White Gold’
August 22nd, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how Harare has Africa’s largest lithium reserves and Beijing is poised to benefit, despite an export ban: The world’s clean-energy transition will be impossible without African minerals—and a degree of resource nationalism from African countries is benefiting China, which has for decades invested in the African green-energy market […]
Read more »Race to Control Electric-Vehicle Supply Chains Leads to Africa
August 16th, 2023
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how – to bypass China – Western companies are investing in facilities to process battery metals in countries such as Tanzania, Mauritius and South Africa: Pressure to create supply chains for electric-vehicle batteries that bypass China is prompting Western miners to do something they have long […]
Read more »How China Is Winning The Race For Africa’s Lithium
August 1st, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how China – which already dominates processing of lithium for use in electric vehicle batteries 0 is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling in Africa: The settlement of Uis in a remote part of Namibia seems an unlikely hotspot for a mineral cold war […]
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