Call for Africa to halt export of raw minerals

by AKANI CHAUKE
JOHANNESBURG – AFRICAN governments support value-addition to minerals, rather than exporting them raw.

This has been the prevailing theme at the just-concluded eighth edition of Mining On Top Africa (MOTA), held in Paris, France.

Ministers and directors in the sector attended the summit.

“We no longer want to be mere providers of raw materials,” said Ibrahima Gassama, Senegal Director General of Mines and Geology.

“We want to transform, create, export finished products, and own our industrial future,” he said on Senegal’s focus.

Prof. Dieudonné-Louis Tambwe, coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Mines, concurred.

“Strategic minerals must first serve Africa. Sovereignty includes our value chains,” he added.

AME Trade, founded in 2006, active in 29 African countries and now a leading facilitator of investment in Africa’s emerging markets, organised MOTA.

The event brought together over 180 participants from 24 countries.

“Mining On Top Africa is above all a space for dialogue, listening, and exchange. A platform that brings together all the stakeholders shaping the present and future of the African mining sector,” said Talibouya Diagne, West Africa Director at AME Trade.

– CAJ News

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