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IS LOBITO CORRIDOR A RESOURCE EXTRACTION PATHWAY? Outgoing US President Joe Biden's visit this past week to the port city of Lobito in Angola has sparked debate on the 1,300-km, US-financed Lobito Corridor. The rail line, which aims to connect Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...

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Do you agree with Hadija that the Lobito Corridor is another neo-colonial Western move to syphon African minerals at its people's expense?

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Obivor 1 Jahr

hate that this is happening. I hate the double standard of the west. No wonder America worked overtime to deplatform African Stream. If this is what Russia propaganda looks like, then Africa needs Russia propaganda everyday.

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She is absolutely right. 👍🏾 Western colonizers have always only built those infrastructure projects they needed for transport of the resources they wanted to exploit.

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Abu-bkrehvor 1 Jahr

She's 100% accurate,

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Supriya Palvor 1 Jahr

Colonial hangover cannot be expunged from consciousness of white predators-brain storming sessions by African leaders needed to counter this rapacious project-leaders who hold interests of their ppl uppermost shud not be Judas,betraying brethren for a few pieces of silver

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Kabral Turevor 1 Jahr

She is 100% right given the fact that the railway line mostly passes through the forest and only in four town in its 1300km stretch. So it's a line for delivering minerals to the cost bcoz the line passes only in mineral rich areas not major town to ease businesses

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Africans are just scared, fearful. They should do away with bad leaders. I mean do away! Break your chains African

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Didn’t hunter Biden make an investment here?

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Alan Kingvor 1 Jahr

Congo has the minerals - so it has the keys. Why doesn’t it exploit the needs or greed of those coming (EU & the US) to better the conditions for it’s own people? You want something, pay for it and not on the cheap.

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Miriam Kyomugashovor 1 Jahr

The role of African actors is now to put the foot down & ensure that the Congo benefit from the mineral exports. Minerals which stay in soil & are only grabbed by war lords & thugs , corrupt loader’s & Mercenaries causing violence for civilians are also destructive to DRC

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USA's President Joe Biden says no African country is more important than Angola. He made this statement while hosting Angola's President Joao Lourenco at the White House. USA is funding the $1 billion rail project for Angola’s Lobito Corridor, which would link Angola with mineral-rich parts of Zambia and DR Congo. It is the biggest US rail investment in Africa ever.
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USA's President Joe Biden says no African country is more important than Angola. He made this statement while hosting Angola's President Joao Lourenco at the White House. USA is funding the $1 billion rail project for Angola’s Lobito Corridor, which would link Angola with mineral-rich parts of Zambia and DR Congo. It is the biggest US rail investment in Africa ever.

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BIDEN'S REAL AGENDA IN ANGOLA Biden's gone to Angola for the loot, specifically for minerals like cobalt and copper necessary for powering devices and electric vehicles. That's educator George Lee Jr's blunt assessment of US President Joe Biden's 11th-hour visit to Angola on 2 December. The outgoing president’s tour will include the $5 billion Lobito Corridor, a key infrastructure project co-funded by the United States and the European Union that connects Angola's port of Lobito on the Atlantic coast to the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia via a 1,300-kilometre railway. Lee argues the project will only hasten the exploitation of Angola and the DRC. It's part of Washington's effort to counter China's economic clout in Africa. Angola's strategic location on the southwest coast of Africa has long made it a key player in international affairs. It's a convenient export point for goods from Central Africa to the West. However, it's also been central to significant historical events, including a proxy war between Cold War rivals. Moscow backed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) led by Agostinho Neto, while Washington supported the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and its offshoot, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas Savimbi. The civil war began in 1975 and ended in 2002. Following the war's end, China provided infrastructure development loans that sped up Angola's economic recovery. In turn, China gained access to Angola's oil industry, which now supplies 72 per cent of its output to China. Given China's heavy investments in the region's mining industry, the jury is out on whether Washington can catch up with Beijing. Video credit: Conscious Lee (X)
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BIDEN'S REAL AGENDA IN ANGOLA Biden's gone to Angola for the loot, specifically for minerals like cobalt and copper necessary for powering devices and electric vehicles. That's educator George Lee Jr's blunt assessment of US President Joe Biden's 11th-hour visit to Angola on 2 December. The outgoing president’s tour will include the $5 billion Lobito Corridor, a key infrastructure project co-funded by the United States and the European Union that connects Angola's port of Lobito on the Atlantic coast to the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia via a 1,300-kilometre railway. Lee argues the project will only hasten the exploitation of Angola and the DRC. It's part of Washington's effort to counter China's economic clout in Africa. Angola's strategic location on the southwest coast of Africa has long made it a key player in international affairs. It's a convenient export point for goods from Central Africa to the West. However, it's also been central to significant historical events, including a proxy war between Cold War rivals. Moscow backed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) led by Agostinho Neto, while Washington supported the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and its offshoot, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas Savimbi. The civil war began in 1975 and ended in 2002. Following the war's end, China provided infrastructure development loans that sped up Angola's economic recovery. In turn, China gained access to Angola's oil industry, which now supplies 72 per cent of its output to China. Given China's heavy investments in the region's mining industry, the jury is out on whether Washington can catch up with Beijing. Video credit: Conscious Lee (X)

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The Lobito Corridor Project, backed by the US and EU, should not proceed. It exemplifies the deliberate exploitation of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 🇨🇩 natural resources and minerals, driven by economic interests. Instead of fostering sustainable development and fair trade, projects like this deepen inequality and perpetuate exploitation. The #DRC 🇨🇩deserves partnerships that empower its prosperity, not ones that strip away its wealth! #Congo #AfricaUnite #CollectiverWestMustFall
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The Lobito Corridor Project, backed by the US and EU, should not proceed. It exemplifies the deliberate exploitation of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 🇨🇩 natural resources and minerals, driven by economic interests. Instead of fostering sustainable development and fair trade, projects like this deepen inequality and perpetuate exploitation. The #DRC 🇨🇩deserves partnerships that empower its prosperity, not ones that strip away its wealth! #Congo #AfricaUnite #CollectiverWestMustFall

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IMF & WORLD BANK HAVE NOT HELPED AFRICA How can we trust institutions established during colonial times by the very forces that colonised us? This is the question posed by Fadhel Kaboub (Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب on X), an associate professor of economics at Ohio's Denison University, who critiques global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Despite their inclusive names, these institutions act as neo-colonial tools, deepening poverty and dependency in Africa and the Global South. After decades of so-called ‘aid,’ little progress has been made in Africa, while Western countries advance by exploiting its resources. For example, the foreign-backed proxy war over natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has lasted over 30 years. Instead of addressing exploitation, the World Bank supports projects like the Inga Dam, which critics say facilitate further resource extraction under the guise of aid. Western powers, led by the US and supported by Europe and the G7, control these institutions. They back initiatives like the Lobito Corridor, a 1,300-kilometre strip of land featuring a railway that snakes through Zambia, the DRC and Angola to ship Africa’s resources across the Atlantic Ocean. The World Bank also supported apartheid South Africa, a history it prefers to forget. Given that Africa pays out more in debt and resource extraction than it receives in aid, is it not time for the rest of the continent to reject these colonial-era models and pursue African-led development, like our siblings in the Sahel? Video credit: Lynn Ngugi on Instagram
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US-Funded "Lobito Corridor" Is A Tool To Cheaply Extract Africa’s Resources – David Hundeyin On June 3, 2026, The Spearhead premiered its debut documentary, ‘What Happened On October 29?’, at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a documentary which challenges the Western narrative about the violent, anti-government protests that rocked Tanzania in October 2025, offering an African-centered perspective on these “protests”, and exposing the nefarious, external forces behind them. This East African premiere came 8 days after the documentary’s West African premiere, which was held in Accra, Ghana. In this excerpt from a panel discussion held immediately after the Dar es Salaam screening, Nigerian investigative journalist and founder of The Spearhead, David Hundeyin, sheds light on the infamous, US-funded “Lobito Corridor” railway project, how this project exists only to perpetuate the West’s plundering of Africa, and how the continent’s more equitable partnerships with China threaten the very premise of this project.
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