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18 stories on the Industry & Mining desk in the last 30 days (18 this week). Latest: Korea’s Digitron Secures $8.3M Pre-IPO Funding to Scale Defence Parts Output. Updated 1 October 2026.

Latest raise: Korea’s Digitron Secures $8.3M Pre-IPO Funding to Scale Defence Parts Output →

• Korea’s Digitron Secures $8.3M Pre-IPO Funding to Scale Defence Parts Output ↗

  1 October 2026 · raise card

• Leading UK mining investor plans over $400 million for Namibia copper mine development ↗

  15 May 2026 · raise card

• Kenya secures new investor for $254.4 million Kitui cement factory, after Dangote’s exit ↗

  2 October 2026 · raise card

• While the world shifts from fossil fuels to EVs, Africa’s richest man is building a $16bn refinery in a country that barely produces oil ↗

  2 October 2026 · raise card

• Investors wary as violence shadows Nigeria’s mining ambitions ↗

  30 September 2026 · raise card

• Dangote moves fertiliser IPO forward as capacity target hits 12 million tonnes ↗

  29 September 2026 · raise card

• Northern Star rejects R445.3 billion takeover bid from Gold Fields ↗

  28 September 2026 · raise card

• South Africa’s missile maker reveals North African buyer as it builds weapons for its own military ↗

  27 September 2026 · raise card

• Meet Samaila Zubairu, the former Dangote executive and AFC boss who helped connect Kenya with Africa’s wealthiest man for a $17bn refinery ↗

  30 September 2026 · raise card

• Africa’s most industrialised economy set to host key battery-material facility in $3.7bn European EV supply chain ↗

  29 September 2026 · raise card

• Japan backs $34 million Namibia rare earth project as race for Africa’s critical minerals intensifies ↗

  30 July 2026 · raise card

• Chinese firm behind Nigeria's $1 billion cement takeover lands another $807 million deal in Asia ↗

  2 August 2026 · raise card

• Nigeria officially opens its $700 billion mining industry to US investors as Washington expands Africa mineral push ↗

  24 September 2026 · raise card

• An African country could join Belarus in taking Canada’s place as a major US fertilizer supplier after securing $3 million for future potash supply ↗

  22 September 2026 · raise card

• Aliko Dangote plans 2028 IPO for fertiliser business targeting world’s biggest status and 40% of Africa’s demand ↗

  22 September 2026 · raise card

• Dangote targets $10 billion power investment, considers cancelling steel business ↗

  22 September 2026 · raise card

• France, US-backed gas megaprojects fuel $5.6 billion FDI inflow in Africa's emerging LNG powerhouse ↗

  14 May 2026 · raise card

• Dangote Refinery to utilize POS terminals, fintechs for landmark IPO ↗

  14 May 2026 · raise card