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,…
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…
The Promise of Kabanga Nickel: Tanzania’s EV Future
The global economy is being rewired around “future metals.” Nickel, cobalt, lithium, and graphite have moved from obscure tables in…
When the River Runs Low: Climate Risks to Hydropower Reliability
From the air, the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant looks like a symbol of permanence: 2,115 megawatts of generating capacity, a…
Financing the Dam: What the Numbers Say
Every budget cycle tells a story. Most years, the tale is about balancing many small needs with limited means, funding…
