Financing Stalemates: Why Mega-Mines Stall While Imports Grow
There is a peculiar rhythm to Tanzania’s big-project politics. Every few years, a podium is erected, a banner is hung,…
Rails for Rocks: Why Liganga & Mchuchuma Justify Southern Corridors
Picture two trains leaving the coast at dusk. The first is sleek and mostly empty, a prestige service with a…
Coal Realities: Mchuchuma Between Power, Pollution, and Policy
Hold a lump of coal in your hand and you feel two truths at once. It is dense with stored…
Steel Dreams: Can Liganga End Tanzania’s Import Dependence?
Every year, Tanzania spends more than $1 billion importing steel beams, rods, plates, and coils that form the skeleton of…
Beyond Ore: Kabanga as an Industrial Pivot, Not Just a Mine
Picture two futures. In one, you return to Ngara twenty years from now. The mine has closed. The pit is…
Who Owns the Nickel Narrative? Transparency, Licensing, and Trust
In every village meeting about a big project, there is a moment when someone stands up and asks a simple…
Community and Corridor: What Kabanga Means for Kagera and Beyond
Stand at first light on a ridge outside Ngara and you can see the outlines of a future that has…
Learning from Zambia: How Not to Build a Nickel Monoculture
There was a time when Zambia’s copper belt seemed invincible. In the years following independence, copper revenues funded schools, hospitals,…
Collateral or Commodity? The Fight Over Using Nickel to Finance Rail & Power
Imagine the scene: in one hand, a government official holds the geological map of Kabanga, billions of dollars in nickel…
Infrastructure as Destiny: Why SGR + JNHPP Decide Kabanga’s Fate
Picture two futures. In one, a hundred-wagon train rumbles through the night along the Central Corridor, hauling nickel concentrate from…
