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Africa’s Critical Minerals Race & the Lobito Corridor Explained | Mining Indaba 2026

This explainer unpacks why the US- and EU-backed Lobito Corridor rail line features so heavily in Africa's critical minerals strategy, linking Zambian and Congolese copperbelt output to the Angolan coast. It draws on discussions from Mining Indaba 2026 about competition between Western and Chinese-backed logistics routes.