Miningweb Weekly: De Beers in play, Angola’s surprise bid, Glencore exits Congo, and silver’s comeback

From the wilds of Idaho, mining analyst Peter Major joins Alec Hogg to unpack the week’s big mining stories. With Botswana and Angola eyeing stakes in De Beers, Anglo American suddenly has options it never expected. Glencore is pulling back from...

ABL secures rig moving contract with Indian player

Oslo-listed global consultancy ABL Group has been selected to oversee rig moves for India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). Sagar Samrat MOPU (for illustration purposes only); Source: ONGC on Twitter...

WFF 2025: Pioneering a common future for humankind at the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems

Rome – Indigenous Peoples leaders, Ministers and High-level delegates convened today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems. Hosted in two...

How Maixent Raoul Ominga is changing Congo’s energy landscape with SNPC

As head of the Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC), Maixent Raoul Ominga confidently steers the company at a pivotal moment in its energy history. His name not only represents a model of leadership; he has become a key figure in...

AfDB 2026 annual meetings to hold in Congo as Bank’s investment portfolio in country tops $1.27bn

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has formalised an agreement with the Republic of Congo to host its 2026 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville, underscoring a partnership that has delivered $1.27 billion in cumulative financing to the country since...

Trump Deserves Nobel If Rwanda Conflict Ends, Congo Head Says

Besides mining projects, Congo has offered the US the chance to invest in its Inga hydropower site, which has the potential to be the biggest in the world, he said. The country — sub-Saharan Africa’s largest — also has as many as 800 other...

British Savannah Energy acquires stake in three hydroelectric projects in Africa

AK&M 22 September 2025 17:40 British Savannah Energy PLC, through its subsidiary Savannah Energy EA Limited, has entered into an agreement with the Norwegian investment fund Norfund to acquire a 50.1% stake in Dutch Klinchenberg BV. This is...

The Future of Green Energy Between Hydrogen and Lithium

“The world is moving toward decarbonization, but the promise of clean energy has become a battlefield among powers, corporations, and peoples who guard the raw materials.” The 20th century was ruled by oil. Wars, dictatorships, empires, and...

Nigeria's Bold Mining Sector Purge: Minister Dele Alake Axes 1,263 Licenses in Crackdown on Speculators

In a sweeping move that signals a no-nonsense approach to revitalizing Nigeria's mining industry, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has decisively cancelled 1,263 mineral licenses. This action, announced on Sunday, September...

Otherworldly

Located above street level in the triangular footprint of a Surry Hills warehouse, creative confidence and spirited discovery underpin the playful yet polished aesthetic of the Alémais Sydney headquarters, designed by YSG Studio. Here, myriad...

Mpraeso MP calls for global action to end child trafficking in African mining

Member of Parliament for Mpraeso, Davis Ansah Opoku has made a strong call for urgent international action to end child trafficking in Africa’s mining sector. Speaking at the Anti-Trafficking in Persons (ATIP) Global Policy Summit in Washington,...

Amid escalating violence in Eastern Congo, demand for prosthetics soars

Thirty-year-old Melissa Hamuli struggles to move, her life forever changed after a bombing struck the town of Mubambiro in North Kivu earlier this year. Though she narrowly avoided amputation, her legs no longer function properly. “War is not a...

Explained: How illicit trade in mining sectors fuels money laundering

Brian Odhiambo, a researcher and communication strategist. [SCreen Grab] Kenya’s gold industry is glittering on the surface but murky underneath. Behind the small pits of artisanal miners and the promise of mineral wealth lies a sector riddled...

Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa

Global electricity access has long been a defining barrier to solving critical social and environmental challenges. Yet the world has made unprecedented progress over the past few decades. In 2010, an estimated 1.2 billion lacked access to...

Middle East owners invest in connectivity, smart-port technology 

At the port level, the rollout extends to AD Ports’ network of 34 terminals across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central and south-west Asia. This should facilitate uninterrupted communications and business continuity, particularly in remote...

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)

For more than a decade, communities in Liberia have struggled against palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), which has razed more than 1,000 hectares (almost 2,500 acres) of rainforest, destroyed sacred sites, and violated their land...

Celebrities: Death in September 2025

Dhimitër Anagnosti, 89, Albanian film director (The Return of the Dead Army, Përralle Nga e Kaluara) and politician, minister of culture (1992–1994) and MP (1991–1996). Jimmy Bone, 75, Scottish football player (Partick Thistle, St Mirren) and...

Oliver Cussen: Fish in the Wrong Place

On the​ Des Plaines River, just south of Chicago, the United States Army Corps of Engineers is at war with Asian carp. The fish were first imported to America in the 1970s to eat up the weeds and algae in catfish ponds and sewage treatment lagoons...

Tanker Diversions From Sanctioned Chinese Terminal May Cause Congestion at Other Ports

SINGAPORE, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Trading firms have diverted at least five more crude oil tankers from a major port in eastern China after the U.S. imposed sanctions on an import terminal there, according to trading sources and shipping data. The...

Alleged British links in Papua’s crisis

United Kingdom banks, energy giants and arms exporters are at the heart of one of the world’s least-known human rights and environmental crises, our research has revealed. Papua – the Indonesian-administered western half of the island also known...