Author: King Jaja

Rocky Smith, plant manager of Molycorp Inc. Mountain Pass rare earths mining and processing facility, holds a handful of rocks containing rare earth elements during a media tour in Mountain Pass, California, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Molycorp Inc. said it has secured the last of several environmental permits necessary to begin a $500 million modernization and expansion project at the mine. Photographer: Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg via Getty Images The government of Burundi on Friday confirmed it has suspended the operations of several international mining companies, including the one that operates Africa’s only rare earths mine in production in western…

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Seated perfectly on the Chobe River, the Chobe Game Lodge in Botswana is the only lodge located inside of Chobe National Park. Not only is it a beautiful lodge, but all of the safari staff are females! Talk about girl power! With 40 spacious guest rooms and four luxurious suites, Chobe Game Lodge will be sure to blow you away as soon as you step foot on the property.  I was so honored to have my suite upgraded upon arrival to the most incredible Family Suite. This suite is the perfect space for privacy overlooking the Chobe River. It includes…

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The start of construction works of Terminal 5 at the Autonomous Port of Cotonou (PAC) in Benin is in the offing after the award of a Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the project following an international call for tenders.The contract was awarded by the Port of Cotonou Authority, which is in charge of operation and management of the port facility, to China Harbor Engineering Company LTD (CHEC) Group, which had in November 2019 won the geotechnical study contract for the same project.Scope of the projectAccording to Van den Branden, the commercial and marketing director of the Autonomous Port of…

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Please Subscribe To Our Youtube Channel Below! British Born Ghanaian Michaela Coel has joined the ensemble cast of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the sequel to the hit Marvel film “Black Panther.” Character details are locked up, per usual. Insiders say Coel has joined director Ryan Coogler at Atlanta’s Pinewood Studios, where production began last month. Marvel Studios declined to comment on the matter. Coel exploded onto Hollywood’s radar in 2020 with her critically acclaimed HBO Max series “I May Destroy You,” for which she’s received four Emmy nominations. In addition to writing, directing and producing, Coel starred in the show…

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Access to clean, affordable, and safe drinking water is both a fundamental human right recognized by the United Nations and Goal 6 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, access to this essential resource in Africa is not yet universal, with 1 in 3 Africans facing water scarcity and approximately 400 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacking access to a basic drinking water. Access to water remains a pervasive development issue across the continent, as a 2019 report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) revealed: Indeed, addressing climate change and poor management of water resources and services is paramount…

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