Mining and its direct suppliers support nearly 900,000 jobs and the livelihoods of 3.6 million South Africans. “Mining is a ...

Yet this single project reflects a broader trend. Over the past two decades, China has become Africa’s largest external ...

With little competition from Indonesia, South Africa is the supplier of choice to India’s sponge iron producers, who struggle to source sufficient domestic coal as policy dictates that power companies ...

The corridors identified by Beijing in the BRI touch on North Africa, eastern Africa with Kenya and Tanzania, Djibouti and ...

ALGERIA: The 950 km Western Mining Railway formally opened on February 1, facilitating rail shipments of iron ore over a distance of 1 400 km to a steel plant in Oran.

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Africa possesses more than 30% of the world’s rare mineral resources critical for clean energy technologies such as electric ...

Dar es Salaam and Kampala agree on new railway extensions and lake links aimed at easing Uganda’s long-standing access to ...

A historic rail line between Senegal and Mali is on the brink of a revival, promising to transform trade and travel in West Africa. Discover the journey ahead.

Finding bullish exporters of thermal coal has been tricky of late given soft prices, lower demand from heavyweight buyers China and India, and for Indonesian miners an additional headache of ...

Camrail, the concessionaire of Cameroon’s railway network, plans to receive four new locomotives by the end of the first ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Coal exports from South Africa's Richards Bay Coal Terminal rose 11% to 57.66 million metric tons in 2025, the highest in four years, as freight rail performance improved. South ...