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14 January 2025
African Arguments
Momentum is growing behind the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty's demand for a clean energy transition and climate justice.
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16 January 2025
The Elephant
In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, Rea Maci offers a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries. She exposes the cycle of debt, austerity, poverty, and governmental negligence imposed by this institution of Western imperialism on nations in the Global South. Maci decries IMF policies as a form of unforgiving structural violence inflicted on the most vulnerable populations. She calls for renewed global solidarity to dismantle the institutions that perpetuate colonial power structures and economic dependency.
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07 January 2025
Mining Weekly
China’s Zijin Mining Group aims to start producing lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo early next year from one of the world’s largest deposits of the battery metal. Zijin is accelerating activity at a site in southeast Congo that’s still claimed by AVZ Minerals. The Australian firm has initiated arbitration proceedings against both the government and Zijin as part of its efforts to recover an exploration license.
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10 January 2025
Al Jazeera
EU’s climate monitor says climate crisis is pushing temperatures to levels never experienced by modern humans.
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07 January 2025
VOA
Activist Jimmy Areseb and others accused officials of accepting bribes from a Chinese mining company in return for access to lithium deposits
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07 January 2025
Al Jazeera
South Africa’s military has enhanced border operations along the Limpopo River to halt smugglers and illegal crossings.
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09 January 2025
VOA
Continent’s challenges include changing weather, conflicts, shrinking agricultural farmlands
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09 January 2025
Daily Maverick
‘Blood minerals’ and Rwanda’s sinister regime have again been thrown into sharp relief by criminal complaints filed last month in France and Belgium against Apple by the DRC — which is also a gangster state.
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18 December 2024
The Elephant
Should we focus on up-scaling the drainage and sewerage services for the high-rise developments in the areas close to the CBD or should we focus on developing residential areas outside the city?
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09 January 2025
Reuters
(Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fraudulently exported at least 150 metric tons of coltan to Rwanda last year, leading to the largest contamination of the Great Lakes Region's mineral supply chain on record, U.N. experts said in a report. The flows started after the M23
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