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🌐 Weekly News Digest on Africa’s Mineral Industries [ December 1 – December 7 ] This was a week of crude production, logistics projects and US geopolitical ambitions. 💡Here are the key highlights: 🇹🇩 Chad - A Franco-British company has almost doubled its crude oil production in Chad, having reached 18,000 barrels per day 🇨🇬 Congo - Eni puts into operation a massive floating gas-processing ship 🇨🇩 DR Congo - Ivanhoe Mining launches what it calls “the largest and greenest copper smelter in Africa” - US and DRC sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement - US Development Finance Corporation aims at two copper-linked projects in DRC 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea - Armed pirates seized 9 crew members of a LNG carrier and vanish without a trace 🇲🇱 Mali - Mali recovers about $1.2 billion from its mining sector in the wake of an audit 🇲🇿 Mozambique - Investors withdraw support for TotalEnergies’ gas project in Mozambique - President Chapo defends TotalEnergies against an accusation of complicity in mass murder 🇳🇦 Namibia - A former journalist Modestus Amutse nominated as the country’s new Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines 🇳🇪 Niger - Niger plans to a French state-owned nuclear company over several million tonnes of radioactive waste - Rebels from Niger's MPLJ movement are intensifying attacks on the assets of the Chinese oil giant CNPC 🇳🇬 Nigeria - Nigerian company responsible for monitoring Nigeria’s Trans Niger Pipeline decides to hire town criers - The British company Jupiter Lithium sues Nigerian government over violations of its rights to develop lithium in Kaduna State - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a speech at an economic conference in Imo State - Chevron plans to expand its operations in Nigeria 🇿🇦 South Africa - South African group Yellowstone sign a concession to expand the Kasumbalesa border checkpoint between the DRC and Zambia. 🇺🇬 Uganda - In 2027, the UK-based Blencowe Resources plans to begin graphite mining in Uganda #NewsDigest Devils Below