Tag: Natural Resources
The wealth and struggles of Africa
Africa is known for its wealth in precious stones and minerals such as cobalt and lithium. In this episode of Modus Operandi, we find out who is benefiting from the rich mines of Africa with Khaoula Houssini, a PhD student in Enviromental Science and Engineering at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. …
Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China
Ben Norton discusses how the US military trained elite forces that carried out a coup in Guinea, a West African country with many natural resources, including the planet’s largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Western government-funded think tanks boasted that the Guinean coup is a blow to China and its Belt and Road Initiative. Washington’s new cold war has Africa in its crosshairs. …