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Morocco's Critical Raw Minerals - an Opportunity for Industrialization or a Geopolitical Battlefield Between China and the West?
Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.
Morocco's Critical Raw Minerals - an Opportunity for Industrialization or a Geopolitical Battlefield Between China and the West? [analysis]
Sep 03, 2025 (African Arguments/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
Critical Raw Minerals in Morocco
Executive summary Morocco has become a prime destination for large-scale investments in the refining of strategic and critical minerals that are used in the production of electric vehicle batteries, with Chinese companies taking the lead in this regard. How do we explain the sudden influx of billions of dollars into electric battery production in Morocco? Is it driven by an internal need within the Moroccan economy? Is it in alignment with the state's declared ambition to ‘green the economy’?
A common enemy: colonialism and imperialism
If imperialism is what happens when empires expand then colonialism is how they do it. Imperialism comes from the Latin imperium, which means sovereignty or political power. It is what happens when an empire, seeking to enrich itself, extends its reach through brute force into foreign territories for the purpose of extracting resources and labour. Colonialism is when they send settlers to do that work.
Holding the Fire: Episode 3. Fighting Ecosystem Collapse with Aslak Holmberg
Skip to content Insight and inspiration in turbulent times. Donate Subscribe Resilience is a program of the nonprofit organization Post Carbon Institute. Podcasts October 17, 2023 Indigenous peoples from around the world have been warning us, in some cases for millennia, that the extractivist mindset, that is now upending both ecosystems and communities of people, would end in collapse if it was not confronted and changed.
Disastrous Capitalism in Morocco in Wake of Earthquake
On 8 September 2023, a devastating earthquake hit Morocco killing over 3,000 people and injuring thousands more. While grassroots solidarity initiatives mushroomed, the state’s relief response has been sorely lacking with deadly consequences. The impact of the earthquake was most severe in the most marginalised and poorest areas, especially in the countryside.
Disastrous capitalism in Morocco in wake of earthquake
On 8 September 2023, a devastating earthquake hit Morocco killing over 3,000 people and injuring thousands more. While grassroots solidarity initiatives mushroomed, the state’s relief response has been sorely lacking with deadly consequences. The impact of the earthquake was most severe in the most marginalised and poorest areas, especially in the countryside.
The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in Myanmar
A Backdrop of Failure Many problems can be identified in the failure to build a nationwide process for peace. These were evident even before the 2021coup and renewed spread of civil war. Following the NCA’s 2015 signing, a catalogue of errors quickly built up. The treaty was initiated under the quasi-civilian administration of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). But the difficulties continued after the National League for Democracy (NLD) came to government office in 2016.
How the United Kingdom went from failed energy privatisation to partial renationalisation
As a consequence of privatisation, UK consumers and workers have suffered from increasing energy prices, fuel poverty and thousands of job losses. Between the early 1990s and 2001, 60 per cent of jobs in the energy sector were lost to efficiency gains and downsizing.2 Meanwhile, private firms are recording ever-growing profits.
In Mexico, public power and popular sovereignty must defend Indigenous peoples’ rights
Mexico’s energy sector is currently highly dependent on fossil fuels, with oil and gas constituting 85 per cent of the energy mix.1 With imported gas providing as much as 70 per cent of the country’s energy needs, Mexico’s energy market is built on foreign dependency, upholding the country’s colonial legacy.
The United Kingdom going from failed energy privatisation to partial renationalisation
As a consequence of privatisation, UK consumers and workers have suffered from increasing energy prices, fuel poverty and thousands of job losses. Between the early 1990s and 2001, 60 per cent of jobs in the energy sector were lost to efficiency gains and downsizing.2 Meanwhile, private firms are recording ever-growing profits.
Public electricity held accountable by the popular struggle for democracy in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican electricity system At first glance, the Costa Rican electricity system can be seen as a successful eco-socialist model. The electricity grid has more than 3,500 MW of installed capacity, and over 99 per cent of power generation is from renewable sources. Since 2021, close to 100 per cent of the population has access to electricity.1 The figure below shows how the sources of electricity generation have evolved since 2000.
Public power and popular sovereignty must defend Indigenous peoples’ rights in Mexico
Mexico’s energy sector is currently highly dependent on fossil fuels, with oil and gas constituting 85 per cent of the energy mix.1 With imported gas providing as much as 70 per cent of the country’s energy needs, Mexico’s energy market is built on foreign dependency, upholding the country’s colonial legacy.
Public electricity held accountable by Costa Rica's popular struggle for energy democracy
The Costa Rican electricity system At first glance, the Costa Rican electricity system can be seen as a successful eco-socialist model. The electricity grid has more than 3,500 MW of installed capacity, and over 99 per cent of power generation is from renewable sources. Since 2021, close to 100 per cent of the population has access to electricity.1 The figure below shows how the sources of electricity generation have evolved since 2000.
The Future of Indonesia’s Energy Sector
After lengthy negotiations, leaders of the Republic of Indonesia, Japan, the United States and other partner countries came away from the G20 summit, held in Bali in parallel to the COP27 in November 2022, with what many are celebrating as a historic agreement. The government of Indonesia made a deal with the G7 group of industrialised countries plus Denmark and Norway.
Algeria
William Shoki This week on AIAC Talk, we speak with Leswin Laubscher and Derek Hook about the phenomenology of Franz Fanon and the ways he is understood throughout different eras of time. Ali Amouzai Sylvia Kay Hamza Hamouchene COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated inequality and insecurity in North Africa's food systems. But the roots of the current crisis can be found in the legacy of colonialism and new forms of imperialism.
Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis
By Ali Amouzai, Sylvia Kay, originally published by Transnational Institute September 23, 2021 Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa This report examines the intersections between Covid-19 and food systems across the North African region. It looks at how the dominant ‘food security’ paradigm increased vulnerability to the economic dislocation wrought by the pandemic.
A just recovery from COVID-19
Food systems are often a point of focus and expression for crises and popular resistance in North Africa. When subsidies are lifted and the prices of essential foods spike, social uprisings follow—and they are nearly always severely suppressed. Uprisings followed the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) interventions after the debt crisis in the 1970s and 1980s.
S is for Samora Machel
Sarah LeFanu’s S is for Samora. A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream (UKZN Press, 2012) is a highly readable, informative and entertaining guide of the life and times of Mozambique’s revolutionary leader and first President Samora Moises Machel. It is also contributor Thomas Michael Blaser’s favorite book of 2012.
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