Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has plowed billions of dollars into infrastructure projects in Africa. That’s given Beijing prime access to the mining resources that will underpin the upcoming technology, energy and transport revolutions.

Now the US has fully awakened to China’s ambitions. President Joe Biden is championing new investment in a railway that will transport copper and other minerals from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Angolan port of Lobito. But is it too late for the US to catch up?

00:00 Introduction
00:51 KoBold Metals and the Central African Copperbelt
02:32 The Benguela Railway through Angola
04:06 China’s stuttering Belt and Road Initiative
05:30 The G-7’s response to Belt and Road
06:28 Trafigura and the US’s rail investment

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After the death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia is putting a new power structure in place that will take over the group’s sprawling operations in Africa, which has advanced Kremlin influence on the continent for almost a decade.

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Vatican's Blessings For Same-Sex Couple Faces Resistance in Nigeria

Despite the Vatican's approval of blessings for same-sex couples, gay Catholics in Nigeria, where same-sex relationships are criminalised, anticipate slow acceptance.
People believe it might take 20 to 30 years for local bishops to embrace the Vatican's decision.
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Ghana’s government has signed a terrible contract with an Australian company to mine lithium in Ghana.
Ghana’s Minister for Natural Resources, Samuel Jinapor insists the terms of the contract are the best for Ghana.
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0:00 Introduction
3:54 How valuable is Lithium?
4:41 The terms of the contract Ghana has signed
5:59 How Mexico is managing Lithium
7:08 How Bolivia is managing Lithium
8:44 How Chile is managing Lithium
9:46 Nigeria to process Lithium locally
10:34 Namibia bans export of raw lithium
11:54 The false promises of Ghana Leaders
12:52 Ghana Gov’t could have invested directly
13:58 Corruption linked to the contract
14:58 Conclusion