DailySand tracks Africa across AI, semiconductor infrastructure, capital markets, and critical minerals supply chains. Below are curated source items and daily digests where Africa appears in today's cross-sector intelligence briefing.
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The Africa Finance Corporation is expanding investment focus to iron-ore and uranium projects across Africa as critical minerals become central to U.S. and allied nations' geopolitical strategy to reduce China dependence in EV and renewable energy supply chains. This repositioning reflects accelerating capital flows toward African mineral assets driven by Western supply-chain security mandates.
Read original →Margreth Tadie, speaking at the Mintek-Sci 2026 conference in Johannesburg, emphasized that Africa possesses significant critical mineral resources but requires greater investment in research, innovation, and academic-industry collaboration to process and add value to those materials. Strengthening downstream processing capabilities in Africa would allow the continent to capture higher margins in critical mineral supply chains rather than exporting raw ore.
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