Burkina Faso has an outstanding external debt estimated at more than $10 billion. Additionally, it owes China an unknown ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Malawi is trying to bolster its mining and tourism sectors to help avoid chronic foreign exchange shortages that cripple its ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Renewable energy company Qair has been awarded c. 300 MW in Tunisia for the development of two solar projects located in Khobna (198 MWp) and Gafsa (100 MWp). This achievement marks a significant step ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi is seeking a new path for South Africa’s second-largest polluter to reach its emissions target after ...

Zambia's copper production increased 12% last year, to about 820,676 metric tons from 732,583 metric tons in 2023, Mines ...

One African country is home to the deepest gold mine in the world with staggering depths and intense temperatures.

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

The company has also invested in solar at its other African operation, at Fekola in Mali, where solar and storage will soon deliver around 30% of the mine’s electricity. Jones tells us that solar has ...