Press Release

Trinity Metals Ltd. has commenced its first sonic drilling program at the Nyakabingo mine in Rwanda, aiming to expand its resource base and optimize production at one of Africa’s largest tungsten deposits. The Rwanda-focused miner plans to drill up to 106 holes at depths of 12 meters to 20 meters …

Rwanda has formally approved a joint venture with Kazakhstan’s state-owned mining company, JSC National Mining Company Tau-Ken Samruk, as the East African nation seeks to leverage its position as a top mineral producer and attract advanced exploration technology into its mining sector. The agreement, greenlit during a Cabinet meeting chaired …

SKF South Africa’s Application Engineering Services cover a wide suite of solutions including installation, lubrication systems, condition monitoring and bearing remanufacturing. At the core of the company’s Application Engineering strategy is a commitment to move beyond the development and installation of housings, bearings and sealing systems by integrating reliability services …

Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, recently teamed up with Tanzania-based condition monitoring company, Technical and Engineering Solutions (TES), to bring an extensive range of reliability solutions to customers in East Africa. National sales manager for WearCheck, Juliane de Beer, says the partnership is already operational, with TES/WearCheck customers in Tanzania …

Egypt is moving to convert its landmark hydropower success in Tanzania into a much broader economic footprint, with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan discussing a large-scale agricultural land reclamation project, a new maritime shipping route and expanded port cooperation during talks in Dar es Salaam, …

By Steven Lumley, technical manager, WearCheck The third article in WearCheck’s series “When Good Oils Go Bad” features a discussion around nitration. Nitration is far less talked about than oxidation, yet in many engines, it is just as destructive and often more insidious. Unlike oxidation, which is driven by oxygen, …

The narrative driving East Africa’s technology sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation. What began as a story about mobile connectivity and grassroots innovation is rapidly pivoting toward compute power the raw processing capabilities, networking, and memory infrastructure required to anchor the next generation of complex digital economies. To unlock this …

Lifting Africa is proud to announce Ground Mobility Systems as the Official Ground Mobility Solutions Sponsor of the Forklift Driver Competition, taking place at Electra Mining Africa 2026 from 7–11 September 2026 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec. As one of South Africa’s leading providers of heavy-duty ground mobility, aluminium …

Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has ordered an immediate halt to all gold mining activities in the western district of Kanungu, cracking down on a massive, unlicensed gold rush that officials say has triggered severe environmental degradation, public health risks, and local economic disruption. The suspension targets a …

Ethiopia closed its 2025/26 fiscal year with record export earnings above $11 billion, comfortably beating the government’s $9.8 billion target and up sharply from $8.3 billion the year before. The headline number masks a structural problem officials have been trying to fix for years: gold and coffee alone generated $8.6 …