Critical minerals

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China’s changing role in Africa’s green economy

Across most of the continent, minerals are exported straight after extraction without local value-add.

Watch Africa take its first steps towards green industrialisation

The continent is moving from just extracting stuff from the soil towards actually making things. With some detours and pitfalls.