The minerals essential to the energy and digital transitions: An opportunity for Africa?

With the acceleration of the energy and digital transitions, global demand for critical minerals has grown exponentially in recent years. Africa, 
with its extensive and still relatively unexploited reserves, hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to support its industrialization trajectory, based on increased local processing of its minerals, and to play a greater role in international green technology value chains. However, these ambitions need to be analyzed in the light of the geological and economic realities of each project, as well as the political  and environmental specificities of each country. Africa will also have to take into account the industrial risk resulting from possible rapid technological developments and the commercial risk from the rise of “green protectionism.”