@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇩🇯Subsea cables linking Europe, Asia and Africa meet in Djibouti, and existing data-centre capacity is close to full. When a hub runs out of supply before it runs out of demand, the next investment decision is rarely a hard one.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇩🇯Djibouti’s cables are the advantage. Electricity cost is the risk. A data-centre thesis here needs a power purchase arrangement in the model from day one, not an assumption that tariffs will cooperate.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇸🇱The IMF flags electricity as the biggest constraint on Sierra Leone's minerals strategy. Any processing project should price in captive power from day one, and settle in hard currency while the leone stays weak.
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@vilni.bsky.social🇸🇱A 2026-2031 critical minerals strategy covers 17 minerals and targets $2.5B in exploration and mining investment. Spodumene deposits at Kangi, Loko and the Kambui Hills are slated for commercial mining in 2026-27.
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@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇸🇳 Four years ago Senegal imported all its gas. This year it stops entirely. That's not incremental progress — that's a country that executed an energy transition plan on schedule, which is rarer than the plan itself.
@vilni.bsky.social🇸🇳 Senegal — a 400 km gas pipeline network, a strengthened sovereign wealth fund, and a $100M independent exploration campaign signal a country building its energy backbone while opening space for international partners.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇸🇳 The Senegal Gas Network's pipeline extensions — Gandon, Tobène, Cap des Biches, Sendou, Malicounda — are each at different construction and approval stages. Map the specific segment your investment touches; the network isn't one uniform regulatory track.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇪🇹 New special economic zones now carry foreign-exchange restriction removal as a specific incentive — a narrower, faster regulatory track than Ethiopia's general investment regime. Confirm SEZ eligibility before assuming standard licensing timelines apply.
@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇪🇹 President Taye flew to Dubai in September to personally pitch Ethiopia at a 180-country investment congress. Heads of state don't fly that pitch unless the reform story behind it is real enough to defend in person.
@vilni.bsky.social🇪🇹 Birr stabilized, the gap between official and parallel exchange rates nearly closed, GDP growth projected at 9%+ for 2026. The currency crisis that scared investors off two years ago is resolving faster than most coverage has caught up with.
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@vilni.bsky.socialBotswana 🇧🇼 — a major source of De Beers’ rough diamonds and now seeking greater control of its own diamond value chain as Anglo American divests.
A resource economy moving toward greater value capture.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇧🇼 Exports to the US, diamonds included, now face a 15% tariff. Any trade-exposed structuring here needs that line item modeled explicitly, not assumed away.
@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇧🇼 Most countries this dependent on one commodity would be panicking. Botswana is negotiating to own a controlling stake in the company that buys most of its diamonds instead. That's a different kind of resource-economy playbook.
@vilni.bsky.social🇿🇼 Citigroup called Zimbabwe's turnaround “fast-track recovery” in August — single-digit inflation for the first time in three decades, a current account surplus, and mining exports that doubled in six months.
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@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇿🇼 ZiG trades near 25-27 to the dollar officially, with a ~15% parallel market premium still in place. Structure contracts around that gap — it hasn't closed yet, even as headline inflation numbers improve.
@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇲🇿 Mozambique's LNG local content rules have tightened significantly — specific quotas for local employment and procurement now factor into future licensing rounds. Compliance history isn't optional paperwork here.
@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇲🇿 Everyone frames Mozambique as LNG-plus-security-risk. Almost nobody mentions it holds the world's largest known graphite deposit, feeding American anode-material production specifically built to cut reliance on China.
@illia-fedorenko.bsky.social🇿🇲 Power capacity, not capital, is now Zambia's binding constraint on copper expansion — industry estimates put the shortfall at 2,000MW. Any mining-adjacent investment thesis needs an energy-access assumption built in.
@vilni.bsky.social🇿🇲 Konkola Copper Mines is back online after a 5-year ownership dispute with Vedanta finally resolved. Barrick is spending $2B to double output at Lumwana. The Copperbelt renaissance is no longer a projection — it's underway.
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@vorontsov7.bsky.social🇿🇲A mine that shut down two decades ago — Luanshya — just reopened. That single fact tells you more about where Zambia's Copperbelt confidence actually stands than any growth forecast.
