Lands and Natural Resources Minister Jinapor said that gold production in the country is expected to increase significantly in the next two years. Ghana has regained its position as the number one producer of gold in Africa, replacing South Africa after a significant fall in output hit the country last year, the Ghanaian Times reports.…

Its grip on clean-energy minerals is a challenge for the West. A visit to the district of Goromonzi, in north-east Zimbabwe, is a lesson in economic history. Its fallow fields hint at the decay that followed the government’s seizure of white-owned farms more than two decades ago. In the surrounding hills ad hoc campsites reveal…