Two Railways, One Copperbelt: The New Scramble for African Minerals
Africa INSIGHTS Editorial · Sep 2026
Washington and Beijing are financing competing rail corridors to move the same African copper and cobalt to different…
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Africa's trade landscape is transforming at speed. The African Continental Free Trade Area is reshaping how goods and capital move across the continent, opening new corridors and disrupting established supply chains. Africa INSIGHTS tracks this transformation at the market level: which corridors are opening, which border regimes are tightening, where value chains are breaking, and where the opportunities lie for investors and operators positioned to move early.
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