The United States is quietly losing access to the minerals that underpin its defense systems, semiconductor manufacturing, and reindustrialization agenda—not through geopolitical confrontation, but ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), first signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 2000, is a unilateral U.S. trade preference program set to expire in September 2025. Its pending ...

Africa is playing an increasingly strategic role in supplying the United States with critical minerals essential for advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and defense technologies, with South Africa ...

As the world aims for a green energy future, Africa’s vast mineral wealth has made it central to global competition. With South Africa hosting the G20 and the African Union now a full member – can it ...

US and SA government officials and mining CEOs met twice to discuss vital economic ties on technological collaboration.

Mauricio Angelo, Founder, The Mining Observatory Winnie Natala Chibesakunda, Ambassador, Embassy of Zambia in Germany Maria de Lourdes Caposso Fernandes, Member of the Parliament of Angola, National ...

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Despite tense bilateral relations, the United States and South Africa held this week their highest-level meeting so far this year to discuss potential resource deals in critical minerals, the ...

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PHALABORWA, South Africa (AP) — Two enormous sandlike dunes at an old chemical processing plant in South Africa are at the center of an exploratory U.S.-backed project to extract highly sought-after ...