Kodal Minerals has signed a binding agreement with Ghanaian consultancy GH Geo-Consult Limited to acquire up to an 80% interest in the Asamankese Lithium Project in Ghana’s Eastern Region, adding a new exploration asset to its West African portfolio.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a director of Orequest over an alleged scheme to smuggle more than 720 tonnes of raw lithium ore to Mozambique using fraudulent export papers.
Sinomine Resource Group has secured an additional Zimbabwean lithium export quota as it continues building a 100,000-tonne-a-year lithium sulphate plant at its Bikita mine.
Sinomine Resource Group has been granted a further 300,000-tonne lithium concentrate export quota for its Bikita mine in Zimbabwe, on top of 200,000 tonnes allocated in April.
Chengxin Lithium has announced plans to build two lithium sulphate plants, one in Zimbabwe's Buhera district and one in Ilorin, Nigeria, with combined investment of about $476 million.
The European Commission has commissioned consultants to help Namibia draft a National Critical Raw Materials Strategy covering uranium, lithium and rare earths, as Windhoek balances competing EU and Chinese interest in its minerals.
Zimbabwe earned $782 million from lithium exports in the first six months of 2026, up from $237 million a year earlier, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said in his mid-year budget review.
Premier African Minerals has postponed restarting its Zulu lithium plant in Zimbabwe until it agrees a long stop date extension with offtake partner Canmax, and raised about £550,000 to fund operations.
The Manono lithium project in the DRC, controlled by China's Zijin Mining, received certification for its first export batch in July 2026, making the country a lithium producer for the first time.
Zimbabwe has railed its first 1,000-tonne shipment of lithium concentrate from Tsingshan's Gwanda mine to Maputo, using NRZ, Grindrod's BBR and Silvergill on a roughly 1,000km route.
Namibia and China signed nine cooperation agreements during President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah's state visit to Beijing in July 2026, including a green minerals agreement naming uranium, lithium and rare earths as strategic priorities.
Zimbabwe's Lithium Producers' Association has asked the government to push the concentrate export ban back to June 2027, saying most processing plants will not be ready by January.
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt agreed on 7 May 2026 to acquire Atlantic Lithium for about $210m in cash, months after Atlantic Lithium's board rejected an earlier takeover proposal it judged undervalued its Ewoyaa project in Ghana.
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt has exported the first consignment of lithium sulphate produced in Africa from its Arcadia operation in Zimbabwe, a milestone for the country's beneficiation drive.
Sichuan Yahua says it has secured a six-month quota to export lithium concentrate from Zimbabwe, after the government granted allocations to Chengxin Lithium and Sinomine following a two-month export freeze.
Ghana's Parliament has ratified the mining lease for Atlantic Lithium's Ewoyaa project, a de-risking milestone the company's chief executive called a watershed moment for the country's lithium ambitions.
Fitch Solutions' BMI says Zimbabwe's sudden halt to lithium concentrate exports will tighten the market until at least mid-to-late 2027, and has raised its 2026 lithium price forecasts in response.
Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group began construction of a $200m lithium-sulfate plant at its Kamativi joint venture in Zimbabwe on 27 February 2026, the third such Chinese-built processing plant in the country.
Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group has started building a lithium sulphate plant at Kamativi, its joint venture with the Zimbabwean state, days after Harare halted concentrate shipments with immediate effect.
Kodal Minerals received a $21.3m payment from Hainan Mining in December 2025 after Bougouni's maiden 28,950-tonne spodumene shipment departed Cote d'Ivoire's San Pedro port for China on 30 November 2025.
