Australia’s Sandfire Resources Ltd plans to spend additional $71.9 million to expand production at its under-construction Motheo copper mine in Botswana as it looks to establish a major mining hub in the Kalahari Copper Belt. Sandfire’s Motheo mine is the second copper mine to be developed in the region, which extends over nearly 1,000 kilometers from […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the M23 rebel group have resumed negotiations in Qatar, aiming to revive a faltering truce signed in July. Despite the Qatari-brokered agreement, fighting has intensified in eastern Congo, particularly in North and South Kivu, displacing over two million people this year alone. Talks in Doha focus on a […]
Head of critical KBC TV channel Mehdi Benaissa has been arrested Thursday along with an official of the ministry of communication few days after appearing in court. Benaissa was summoned last weekend to a military police station in the capital Algiers. He also appeared in court at the instruction of the state prosecutor on Monday […]
