The amount of undeclared uranium from the DRC’s cobalt mines could – if processed – produce enough material for 600-1,500 nuclear weapons.
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The competition for Africa’s critical minerals between China and the West presents an opportunity.
African nations need to negotiate contracts that ensure they hold on to the power their resources bring.
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
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Research Scientist at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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SARChI Chair for Mineral Law in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor, Development Studies, Murdoch University
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Lecturer in Sustainability and Fellow of Indo Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
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