Tinubu leads fresh push for Africa mineral wealth
President Tinubu champions a new initiative to ensure Africa’s mineral wealth benefits the continent, focusing on local processing and value addition. Lear Read More: https://punchng.com/tinubu-leads-fresh-push-for-africa-mineral-wealth/
President Bola Tinubu is set to lead a continental push to prevent Africa's mineral wealth from being exported as raw materials, as he chairs a high-level summit on critical minerals in New York next month. The Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) will convene the Third High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa, with the aim of changing the traditional extract-and-export model and moving African countries towards greater processing, manufacturing, and integration of mineral value chains.
The summit, themed "From Resources to Wealth: Continental Cooperation for Mineral Value Addition," will be held on September 21, 2026, in Manhattan on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
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