China agrees that the Ukraine issue falls outside the scope of the Kimberley Process.

A top executive from state mining company Gecamines said that partner CMOC Group Ltd. owes $7.6 billion in overdue payments.

An administrator appointed by a Congolese court to run the world's second-largest cobalt mine took control of the project's bank accounts after CMOC refused him access to the mine.

"Going forward, I don't think there will be a mine where Zambia will own less than 20%," mines minister Paul Kabuswe said.

The Just Energy Transition Partnership was announced at the COP26 talks in Glasgow in November.

The victims were six Burkina Faso nationals, one Tanzanian and one Zambian.

Brown was also the former chief executive officer of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. and Zimbabwe’s Kuvimba Mining House Ltd.