Category Archives: Current African News

$3.24 Billion to be Invested in Tanzania SGR Construction by Spain

The Tanzanian section of the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network is a key link to the land-locked countries of the Great Lakes:

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$3.24 Billion to be Invested in Tanzania SGR Construction by Spain

Tanzania SGR project foresaw another

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Value Addition to Minerals in DRC: Good News for independent miners

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Congo plans new copper-cobalt smelter to serve informal miners

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Democratic Republic of Congo said it’s backing plans for a new domestically owned copper-cobalt plant to help formalize artisanal mining in the country,

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Creativity vs Empire: Peace Through Development in Africa [KPFK Radio Spotlight on Africa]

Source: Canadian Patriot Press

“I think one thing that the African governments as a whole, around the African Union, must do is make thinkers like Cheikh anta Diop popular. They need to be publishing all of his books on Pan Africanism, on the deep history of Africa, pre-colonial Africa; the … Read the rest

Springboard Into the Future: The Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project

re posted from                  EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

This article appears in the September 22, 2023 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

Springboard Into the Future

The Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project

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Access to abundant energy is the first step in large-scale economic development.
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Prof. Georgy Toloraya : BRICS: A War Prevention Medicine

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So it’s not Russia and China which are isolated, which I hear often in different Western-sponsored forums, it’s rather the Western countries that are isolated. And BRICS, during this summit meeting, has shown its desire to accommodate the West. BRICS is not anti-Western. It’s Read the rest

Panel of Experts Discuss Significance of Ethiopia’s Historic 4th Filling of the GERD for Africa

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The world, the physical universe we live in, has changed; and our planet will never go back to the way it was before. The newly expanded BRICS, with its own Development Bank, is in its embryonic stage of becoming an alternative political-economic institution Read the rest

BRICS : History in the Making by the Global South, by the Global Majority

In contrast to the arrogance of the unipolar world controlled by the Western banking elite, we have today an emerging NEW PARADIGM, represented in the concepts of the BRICS alliance of nations.

The following are some of the key points made at a recent international conference hosted from Tanzania

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