African countries rich in oil and minerals. International governments who plummets the continent resources keep African populations poor. However; U.S Lawmakers on the Foreign Affairs Committee who are also Green Energy activists has an opportunity to Oversight unlawful mining,and foreign exploitation of African miners. Or, as with the oil industry and fossil fuel mining, will Africa’s wealthy Green Hydrogen resources be exploited by a new Green Energy Renewable industry?
July 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is ready to increase its presence in Africa, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin told an African news outlet in an audio interview published online earlier this week.
Uranium mines operate in many countries, but more than 85% of uranium is produced in six countries: Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, and Russia.
Africa’s minerals: ( Updated October 2022)
Africa has considerable mineral deposits, including uranium.
Exploration and mine development is proceeding in countries which have not hitherto supplied uranium.
Gabon has been a significant uranium supplier in the past.”
International colonial tools of conflict (Divide and Conquer the resources). Gang wars, scientific pandemic; plagued with starvation, marginalized; amidst the virtual signal pretense.
Nuclear fuel pellets, with each pellet – not much larger than a sugar cube – contains as much energy as a tonne of coal (Image: Kazatomprom)
Africa’s Hydrogen Green Energy
West Africa
Coup d’états have taken place over the last three years in the West African states of Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso. Military governments are still in place in each country.
The roots of this wave lie in regional instability, poor governance by elected leaders, and many successful past coups.
Other West African states offer evidence that future coups are not inevitable and democratic progress is possible.
The government of Guinea-Bissau says it survived an attempted coup d’état yesterday, just days after Burkina Faso suffered the fifth coup in nine months around the greater Sahel. upheavals cement this African region as the most pronounced center of a global crisis: Poor and authoritarian governance is breeding extremism and transnational criminality, igniting violence and undermining efforts to build democracies. Following last year’s military power grabs in Chad, Mali, Guinea and Sudan, the new crises highlight widening risks to security — for the 135 million people of the Sahel region, and ultimately for Europe and the United States. They also point to changes needed in U.S. and international policies.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/others/uranium-in-africa.aspx
https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/02/sixth-coup-africa-west-needs-its-game
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