This week in Business Africa: in Sierra Leone, a young genius uses salt water to electrify remote villages; in the DRC, Washington and Doha support two peace agreements amid mining interests; in ...

The highlights this week: Africans express outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to Eswatini, the ...

AUSTRALIA’S AVZ Minerals, which holds a majority stake in the disputed Manono lithium project in the Democratic Republic of ...

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AVZ claims a new US-backed partnership on the Manono lithium and tin deposit clashes with an arbitration ruling.

Australia-based AVZ Minerals , which holds a majority stake in the contested Manono lithium project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Monday a new deal between Kinshasa and U.S.-backed ...

US mining firm KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has signed a landmark agreement with the ...

China is back in contention to control all of a vast lithium project in Africa amid a standoff between Australian company AVZ ...

US-based KoBold Metals has entered into a new mineral exploration agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, deepening ...

Highlights: • Kobold Metals signed an agreement in principle with the DRC government on July 17, 2025. • The deal includes the Manono lithium project, which has strategic value. • The agreement ...

KoBold Metals - the mining company owned by U.S. billionaires Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates - has signed a deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

KoBold Metals, supported by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, signed a deal to develop Congo's Manono lithium deposit, overcoming a ...