Africa is shifting from pit-to-port extraction to local processing and refining. Ghana, Namibia and the DRC are at the centre of a contest over who captures the margin.
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Key Facts
—China-Africa trade. Bilateral trade reached US$295.6 billion in 2024, dwarfing Russia-Africa trade of US$24.5 billion.
—Lithium surge. Africa’s share of global lithium production jumped from 0.1 percent in 2019 to 10.6 percent in 2025.
—DRC economic weight. Afreximbank projects the DRC will become sub-Saharan Africa’s fifth-largest economy in 2026, with GDP of roughly US$123 billion.
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