The African Union announced in February this year that it was setting up an "infrastructure fund" to finance the construction of much needed roads, railways and power plants on the continent.

Africa has an estimated annual infrastructure financing deficit of 60 to 90 Billion US$ 📷I, Alaindg, CC BY-SA 3.0 <creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Kenya🇰🇪 navy is building a new ultra-modern Kenya Navy Shipyard at Mtongwe Navy Base in Mombasa..
The Shipyard will have a slipway that can handle vessels with a capacity of 4000 tonnes and 150 metres long.

Kenya will start building, repairing and maintaining its own vessels. 📷PH1 (NAO) Chris Desmond, USN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KNS_…

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"DRC Congo🇨🇩 Cobalt" is in probably use when--

-- You send an email or check social media (10 to 20 grams)

-- When drive an electric car (6 to 15 kilos)

-- Travel by plane (Cobalt is used to fashion super-alloys to manufacture jet engines) and more. Cobalt occurs in various metallic-lustered ores, for example cobaltite (CoAsS), but is mainly produced as a by-product of copper and nickel mining. The copper belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia yields most of the cobalt mined worldwide.

Many African communities had metal smelting and metal working technologies that they possessed for hundreds to thousands of years. They made wire from metals like iron, brass and copper. They also made metal sculptures, plaques, Jewelry, bowls, weapons, farm & medical tools etc The high quality Benin Bronzes looted from Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897 caused a sensation when they were displayed in the British Museum.

Metallurgy is a key pillar to "Africa's Industrialization + Africa's Security". No African Nation can industrialize without steel and steel industries", it is a basic driver. Africa needs to be able to build tools and machines, from simple hand tools to industrial machine tools. Africa needs more steel foundries in the small and large business categories. Many of the high-tech items, tools and machines we use today start their journeys in metal foundries, with people or machines smelting the ore, casting, hammering & shaping in order to make these items.

"The Butcher Of Congo" King Leopold II of Belgium. formally acquired rights to the Congo territory at the Berlin Conference in 1885 and made the land his private property, naming it the Congo Free State. His reign was disastrous resulting in killing of 10 million Congolese. 📸 Wikipedia