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🌐 Weekly News Digest on Africa’s Mineral Industries [ November 17 – November 23 ] This was a week of oil rush and various memoranda of understanding. 💡Here are the key highlights: 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso reveals budget hole in the mining sector. 🇨🇫 Central African Republic - The Chinese Embassy in the CAR warns its citizens of risk becoming “mining slaves.” 🇨🇩 DR Congo - The DRC extends its ban on minerals from territories under rebels' control. - Qatar's Emir and President Tshisekedi sign 6 new agreements 🇬🇭Ghana - Ghana to take control of the country's largest undeveloped field in order to halt the decline. - Ghana's forests are taken over by armed illegal miners 🇲🇱 Mali - Barrick and Mali have held new talks and are finalizing terms that will end their dispute 🇲🇿 Mozambique - The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights files a complaint accusing TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes - Mozambique grants TotalEnergies additional 4.5 years to implement its delayed LNG project in Cabo Delgado. 🇳🇦 Namibia - TotalEnergies and Chevron have set their sights on a $10 billion field in Namibia. 🇳🇪 Niger - Niger and Chad sign an agreement on fuel supply and a pipeline to Cameroon 🇳🇬 Nigeria - Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have signed a deal to fast track a cross border pipeline 🇸🇳 South Africa - South Africa and the EU sign a MoU on critical minerals 🇸🇩 Sudan and South Sudan - South Sudan announces full resumption of oil exports after drones struck oil facilities in Sudan 🇺🇬 Uganda - Uganda brings in investors from the UAE to build its $4 billion oil refinery. - Uganda announces its future oil pipeline to Tanzania is 75% ready. 🇿🇲 Zambia -Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives on a two-day visit to promote Chinese participation in the Tanzania-Zambia railway #NewsDigest Devils Below