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South Africa Confirms it Won’t Attend the G20 in Washington

12. April 2026 um 13:37
South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has not been accredited to attend the upcoming meeting of the Group of 20 finance chiefs in Washington, deepening a rift with the US.

Enoch Godongwana, South Africa's finance minister, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Thursday, March 5, 2026. "South Africa is a price taker" when it comes to petroleum imports, Godongwana said.

Chinese Copper Miners Join $1.2 Billion African Rail Revamp

02. April 2026 um 09:34
Chinese mining, shipping and logistics companies are joining a $1.24 billion project to revamp a railway linking Zambia’s copper region to a port on the Indian ocean.

A speech by Chinese President Ji Xinping broadcast at the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) memorial park in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. For over a decade, China poured more than $120 billion of government-backed loans through its Belt and Road Initiative to build hydropower plants, roads and rail lines across the continent — as well as unparalleled influence.

Europe Loses Top Aluminum Supplier With Mozambique Smelter Idled

16. März 2026 um 06:56
South32 Ltd. idled its Mozambican aluminum smelter, Europe’s biggest source of the metal, after talks failed to secure an affordable power supply deal beyond this month, tightening global supplies just as the Iran war prompted Bahrain to curtail output at the world’s biggest facility.

Molten aluminium Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Key Congo Copper-Export Route Cut Off After Bridge Collapses

02. März 2026 um 06:39
Flooding severed the Democratic Republic of Congo’s main copper-export corridor after a bridge collapsed just south of the Zambian border, disrupting shipments from the world’s second-largest producer of the metal.

Copper plates on wagons ready for onward shipping at the Mufulira refinery, operated by Mopani Copper Mines Plc, in Mufulira, Zambia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. A recent 1,900-mile journey from mines in Congo and Zambia shows how, a century after commercial mining began here, the world’s hunger for copper is again reshaping the region.
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