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In Focus | Rwanda, South Africa
Serial entrepreneur Brian Menell bets double on rare earth mining sovereignty

By Clotilde Ravel

Published on 14.02.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 8 min

The mining and defence specialist and heir to the dynasty that co-founded AngloVaal has been investing heavily in "technology metals" with help from the US, worried about being left behind by China. As he had done in the 1990s with British and South African army veterans, who found the first private military companies to help his activities, Menell now has a retired US admiral and a former British army officer on board.

From Kigali's virtual African Mining Forum in March 2021 to Johannesburg's online Joburg Indaba Mining in October and an assortment of interviews posted on YouTube, the South African mining magnate Brian Menell stuck to the "keep it online" mantra of a post-Covid-19 world in 2021. Giving glimpses of the well-stocked bookshelves of his Oxfordshire home

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In Focus | Rwanda, South Africa
Serial entrepreneur Brian Menell bets double on rare earth mining sovereignty

Rwanda
Bay View suffers setback in mining dispute with Kigali

United Kingdom
African critical minerals fever grips corridors of Westminster

Lesotho
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Burundi
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Namibia
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