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Mobix Labs to Acquire U.S. Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Company Powering Defense and National Security

eriinfo.com1 day ago07 mins

U.S.A F-35 Lightning II Mobix Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBX) today announced it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire Special Project Delivery LLC (“SPD”), a strategic infrastructure platform building sovereign U.S. supply chains for rare earth elements, critical minerals, and energy storage. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260514342224/en/…

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Africa: DRC’s Rise to Africa’s Top Five – A Moment Built on Minerals and Momentum

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

A quiet but consequential shift is underway in Africa’s economic order. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), long defined by paradox vast wealth amid deep poverty,is now projected to become sub-Saharan Africa’s fifth-largest economy in 2026. This is not speculation. Projections from the International Monetary Fund place the DRC’s GDP at around $123 billion,…

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Africa: The Race to Mine Critical Minerals for AI and Clean Energy Is Creating ‘Sacrifice Zones’ That Harm Water and Health of World’s Poor

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago013 mins

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies – everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, electric vehicles and defense systems – depend on critical minerals. But many of the communities where those minerals are mined end up with polluted…

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Africa’s Minerals Boon, Cautious Optimism Amid Geopolitical Disruptions

eriinfo.com2 months ago09 mins

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — Africa’s eye on minerals as the be-all-and-cure-all for the continent’s development agenda is being tested by geopolitical gamesmanship as global superpowers jostle to carve new spheres of influence. Amid the turmoil unleashed by the United States President Donald Trump administration’s trade tariffs, African minerals have faced price volatility, which analysts say points…

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West Africa: U.S. Minerals Diplomacy Tests Sahel Countries’ Partnership Choices

eriinfo.com3 months ago011 mins

Can the security-for-minerals approach yield win-win outcomes for Sahelian states beyond diplomatic recognition? In February, United States (US) Senior State Department Official Nick Checker visited Bamako to reaffirm Washington’s respect for Mali’s sovereignty, and reset bilateral ties after ‘past policy missteps’ through renewed security and economic cooperation. Similar messages were conveyed to Nigerien Prime Minister,…

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Africa’s Regional Blocs Must Prevent a Silent Scramble for Critical Minerals

eriinfo.com3 months ago07 mins

A new scramble for Africa is underway. It is not marked by warships or colonial flags, but by battery supply chains, green transition targets, and high-level trade delegations. The race is for lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese, platinum group metals and rare earth elements — the minerals powering electric vehicles, renewable energy systems and digital infrastructure….

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Africa’s Critical Minerals Are a Huge Economic Opportunity – G20 Framework Sets Out Ways to Seize It

eriinfo.com4 months ago011 mins

As the world shifts to clean energy, minerals such as lithium, cobalt and manganese have become as important as oil once was. Africa holds large reserves of these critical minerals. Yet they are mostly exported as raw materials, returning as expensive green technologies made in factories overseas. South Africa’s G20 presidency set up a new…

Why South Africa is missing the tech minerals boom

eriinfo.com4 months ago09 mins

Copper is a foundational material used in the technology industry South Africa’s potential to compete more effectively as a producer of critical minerals used in the technology sector is hampered by structural inefficiencies and policy uncertainty, leading to investments flowing to other countries where investors perceive it is easier to do business. This is according…

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Africa: Power, Minerals, Sovereignty – the Rise of Us-Africa Partnerships

eriinfo.com5 months ago011 mins

In recent months, a quiet yet unmistakably strategic shift has been underway across Africa’s mineral-rich heartlands. The United States, emerging from a decade of cautious engagement, is now decisively intensifying its diplomatic and economic foothold in Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). This resurgence is neither accidental nor merely transactional; it…

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Africa’s Critical Minerals Poised to Power Global Green Energy Transition

eriinfo.com6 months ago06 mins

United Nations — Although Africa holds more than 30 per cent of the world’s critical green minerals–including cobalt, lithium, manganese, and rare earth elements vital for building batteries, wind turbines and solar panels– this has not translated into prosperity for the continent. At the Africa Climate Summit 2025 held in Addis Ababa in September 2025,…