US Steps Up Efforts to Access Africa’s Critical Minerals
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A mining wagon underground at a mine in Mufulira, Zambia.
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The US is stepping up efforts to boost ties with African nations rich in critical minerals to help secure supply, according to a government official.
Workshops recently held in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and Kinshasa in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo brought in US experts with the ultimate goal of setting up local battery manufacturing operations, Kimberly Harrington, deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Energy Resources, said at a conference in Cape Town on Thursday.