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Pleased to share our new Carnegie Africa Program policy outlook on "Maximizing the Benefits of the Renewed Global Interest in Africa’s Strategic Minerals". Written by Folashade Soule, it summarizes the insights shared at the workshop we convened during the Investing in African Mining Indaba

In my new essay in the Financial Times, I discuss how African oil producers are not experiencing boom times despite oil prices being high since 2021. In the short term, this is affecting their fiscal positions. Longer term, it will reduce their access to the financial resources required to

Zainab Usman Financial Times Excellent piece -- well reasoned & argued. Interestingly, African countries continue to supply the minerals for the energy transition, while they remain hampered by debt distress & de-industrialization. x.com/BirukHaregu/st…

Africa’s petrostates are missing out on the oil boom — and it matters—The writer is a senior fellow and director of the Africa programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ft.com/content/a7418b… FT Opinion Zainab Usman

Africa’s petrostates are missing out on the oil boom — and it matters ft.com/content/a7418b… via @ft Zainab Usman

US looks to Tanzania for eastward expansion of Lobito rail project - The Africa Report.com theafricareport.com/359973/us-look…

Viet Nam’s economy is forecast to grow 6.1 percent in 2024, and 6.5 percent in both 2025 and 2026 worldbank.org/en/news/press-… via World Bank

Very interesting data visualization below, of electricity from the 160 Chinese-built power plants on the African continent

Sleek video #FOCAC2024

The US agrees to help build Ghana’s first small modular reactor project in a push to promote nuclear technology for African countries bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Green

Zambia plans to establish an investment company to control at least 30% of critical minerals production from future mines. The govt also intends to make investors in the critical minerals sector allocate >35% of procurement costs to local suppliers bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via

At #FOCAC24, China agrees to give market access to Kenyan agricultural produce citizen.digital/news/china-giv…

At #FOCAC2024, the presidents of Zambia &Tanzania sign an MoU with Xi Jinping to revitalize the TAZARA rail line. TAZARA (connects Zambia & Tanzania, terminates at the Indian Ocean) is comparable to the Lobito corridor (connecting Zambia, DRC, Angola, to the Atlantic Ocean)