CAPE TOWN— The need to secure new sources of metals for the energy transition amid sanctions on top producer Russia has increased the Africa risk appetite for major miners, who have few alternatives to the resource-rich continent.   Companies and investors are considering projects they may have previously overlooked, while governments are also looking to Africa, anxious to ensure their

Ami Sana hangs a tattered tarp for a bit of shade where she can rest on a break from pounding stones under the scorching sun. “The work is hard. It makes my body weak, but what else can I do?” she asked. The mother of six is one of two million people displaced by Burkina Faso’s rapidly rising Islamic extremist