South Korea is strengthening cooperation with resource-rich African countries in critical minerals. This is hardly surprising given that critical minerals are essential to its high-tech industries. The country has an annual import demand of over US$36bn for critical minerals, including graphite, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and lithium, and is working to diversify its supply sources. The country's strategy is to provide technology for resource exploration to African countries a

Africa is home to over 30 percent of the world’s known reserves of critical minerals . While international interest and investment in...