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Refining the Lobito Corridor: The Future of Cobalt in Sub-Saharan Africa
By 2040, clean-energy technologies will need 40 times more lithium, 25 times more graphite, and 20 times more nickel and cobalt than in 2020. These metals are essential to the batteries in smartphones and electric vehicles (EV) and the clean energy …