As commodity prices climb, governments around the world are trying to assert greater control over domestic resources. This ...

Zimbabwe and Malawi have banned exports of raw minerals in a move aimed at forcing local processing and capturing more value from critical resources. Zimbabwe halted shipments of lithium concentrates ...

GOVERNMENT has suspended the export of raw minerals including lithium concentrates, a year ahead of its 2027 plan. The suspension, announced in a circular signed by mines minister Polite Kambamura ...

Restricting raw materials exports is well-intentioned but without other policies to foster domestic processing, they can backfire ...

A clean energy future hinges on minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. But the race to secure them puts pressure on the places where they are mined. With some supply and ...

Africa’s critical minerals will either entrench the old pattern of extraction without development or become the foundation of a future that leaves behind more than just the dust of Marange.

This is the political economy of critical minerals. Critical minerals are defined less by geological rarity than by economic ...

Germany is the latest acolyte. Industrial behemoths including carmaker BMW and munitions manufacturer Rheinmetall want a Japanese-style trading house, backed by Berlin, to secure supply of critical ...

ZIMBABWE has imposed an immediate ban on exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates, said Reuters citing a mines ...

The Department of Mining has collected a paltry K70 million in mining revenue in the 2025/26 fiscal year, 89 percent down from the projected K665.45 million, data contained in the 2026 Malawi ...