by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Consumers
Most announcements about batteries are aimed at ministries and markets, not at the person who will eventually buy the product. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia signed a cooperation agreement to build a shared electric-vehicle battery value...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Content
In a story this large, the most useful thing a newsroom can do is separate what is documented from what is merely hoped. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia signed a cooperation agreement to build a shared electric-vehicle battery value chain...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Economics
For years the pitch to investors in the copperbelt has been about extraction: how many tonnes, at what grade, shipped how fast to a port. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia offered a different proposition. The two governments signed a...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Money
A memorandum can be signed in an afternoon; a battery plant is financed over a decade. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia signed a cooperation agreement to build a shared electric-vehicle battery value chain from their copper and cobalt, with...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Intellectual
The usual story about African minerals is written by others: the continent supplies the input, someone else designs the system that profits from it. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia proposed to write their own. The two governments signed a...