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Official newsletter of the Lobito Corridor IPA presenting news, views, and announcements impacting the Lobito Corridor.
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Lobito Corridor News
🎦 Experience Lobito Corridor’s Top Copper Mine
Lobito Corridor’s Kamoa-Kakula Ivanhoe mine continues to impress and break records…
📰 Each Current Lobito Corridor Nation Ranks in Top 10 With Most Chinese Workers
1. Algeria
2. Congo DRC
3. Nigeria
4. Guinea
5. Ethiopia
6. Angola
7. Egypt
8. Kenya
9. Zambia
10. Tanzania
📸 Mines Take Increasingly Longer to Bring Online
Mines take increasingly longer to build: from less than 13 years to nearly 18 now. Proper permitting is essential but excessive delays can kill the best deposits which is one reason many of Lobito Corridor’s mineral deposits remain untapped... Read More
📰 Angola Caught in Tug-of-War Between China, US
Angola is critical to Chinese ambitions in Africa and is projected to be the base for China’s second military base on the Continent, the first in Djibouti. But, "[t]he Americans don't want to give up the region's valuable to the Chinese. But the question is if they can even match the Chinese, who have invested in the region for decades and have a massive advantage," remarked Claudio Silva, a political analyst on Angola… Read More
📸 DRC Contains 55% of the World’s Cobalt Reserves
Cobalt is a critical mineral in the manufacturing of EVs and other modern technology. Australia is a distant second containing around 15% of global reserves... Read More
📸 Lobito Corridor Seeing More Ship Traffic From Suez Canal Woes
An increasing number of ships bypassing the Suez Canal, in favor of sailing around Africa, is a positive sign for Angola's Lobito Port.
