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DeepMind and AIMS are launching scholarships for African students focused on expanding the continent's AI field.

Zambia's minerals are crucial for a low-carbon world. But reform is essential if our people are to benefit from the wealth they create.

Instadeep’s $682 million acquisition by BioNTech proves a case for African startups building global products.

A look ahead at the coming year, previewing expansions to the organization's programming. This includes new work on lithium in Chile, and renewed engagement on how national oil companies in Mexico and Ghana are navigating the energy transition.

Responsible sourcing should be at the top of the agenda for multinationals. But many green technologies — which we advocate in our war on climate change — rely on the use of minerals sourced in high-risk areas with poor human rights records.

Africa, with its vast deposits of critical minerals, has never been so economically essential to the West as it commits to a green economy.

The mining industry suffers when there are problems with electricity supply, infrastructure and transport

City of Joburg  plans to avoid stages 1 - 3 of rolling blackouts in 6 months’ time, but it needs to raise R401-million first.

Members of the medical fraternity have joined the pending court action against Eskom to get hospitals, among other facilities, exempted from rolling blackouts, which they say have a devastating effect on their efforts to save lives.

A group of politicians, doctors, citizens, businesspeople and civil society organisations will go to court on 28 February to ask a judge to stop rolling blackouts in critical sectors and compel the South African government to play open cards with regards to its energy plans and the state of the...