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Didier Rault, CEO of World Mining Investment, has joined the advisory board of African Mining Week (AMW) 2026. Seasoned Rault’s appointment is timely with African markets seeking fresh capital to fast-track projects development and capitalize on rising global demand for critical minerals which is expected to triple by 2030. As …

Ethiopia’s projected leap from $3 billion to $10 billion in annual export revenue in the space of three years is remarkable by any measure but the more significant story may be what is driving it and what it reveals about the direction of the country’s economic transformation. At the fourth …

The Bank of Uganda has launched a three year pilot programme to purchase gold directly from local miners, marking a significant policy shift that brings the central bank into the domestic gold market for the first time and signals a deliberate effort to strengthen Uganda’s foreign exchange reserves whilst formalising …

The mining sector in Tanzania has long carried the weight of promise, a sector rich in gold, gemstones, and strategic minerals and richer still in the rhetoric of broad-based economic transformation. From policy documents to political speeches, natural wealth must translate into national prosperity. Yet the Performance Audit Report by …

With the introduction of the X-Air 900-20, Atlas Copco strengthens its DrillAir portfolio with a flexible, application driven portable air compressor designed for the realities of mining and construction operations worldwide. Atlas Copco has expanded its DrillAir portfolio of portable air compressors with the launch of the X-Air 900-20, a …

As advanced technologies continue to transform how work gets done, Caterpillar Inc. is reinforcing its commitment to the workforce behind that transformation. The company is opening registration for the Building the Future Workforce Challenge, a global innovation competition first discussed on stage at CES® 2026 by Caterpillar Chairman and Chief …

The narrative of Kenya’s mining sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation as the government shifts its strategic focus from the mere extraction of raw materials to a robust model of local value addition. Opening the 2026 Mining Investment Conference in Nairobi, President William Ruto articulated a vision for integrated industrial …

In a landmark development for the East African mining sector, LSE-listed Blencowe Resources has announced that graphite concentrate from its Orom-Cross project in Uganda has been successfully integrated into a high-stakes rocket component testing programme in the United States. The initial test firing, conducted on a hypersonic suborbital rocket platform, …

The Governor of Central Equatoria State, Emmanuel Adil Anthony, has returned to Juba following a working visit to Addis Ababa aimed at attracting foreign investment to South Sudan’s most populous state and drawing lessons from Ethiopia’s development model. Anthony and his delegation travelled to the Ethiopian capital to promote the …

The relationship between Kenya and Tanzania has always been too important to fail and too complicated to fix easily. President William Ruto’s historic address to Tanzania’s parliament on 5 May, the first by a Kenyan head of state is the most significant diplomatic gesture either country has made in years …