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Trump races to catch up to China in new scramble for Africa's minerals
By Ben Farmer
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Donald Trump may have spent months berating South Africa's government over its policies, but that did not stop him from sending dozens of smiling American officials to the country this week.
Washington's glad-handing trade envoys and ambassadors have been on their best behaviour for the world's largest get-together of mining dealmakers, held in the shadow of Cape Town's Table Mountain.
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The delegation is said to be the largest America has ever sent to the annual investment jamboree, as Washington embraces a new global scramble for critical minerals playing out in large part in Africa.
Anxious over China's chokehold on ingredients vital to everything from smartphones to jet fighters, getting access to the resources has now openly become the centrepiece of America's Africa policy.
Just days after America unveiled a muscular new investment strategy to break China's grip on mineral flows, envoys arrived in force to make their case to bankers, mining execs, and African leaders. ...
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