{"id":222936,"date":"2026-02-05T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-2026-critical-minerals-ministerial-fact-sheet\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:53:14","slug":"africa-2026-critical-minerals-ministerial-fact-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-2026-critical-minerals-ministerial-fact-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: 2026 Critical Minerals Ministerial Fact Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Washington, DC \u2014 <em><strong>EDITORS NOTE:<\/strong> The African countries participating in the invitation-only \u00a0Critical Minerals Ministerial &#8211; Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Sierre Leone and Zambia.\u00a0The United States signed new bilateral critical minerals frameworks or MOUs with Guinea and Morocco.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today the United States, together with our partners and allies, has set out to reshape the global market for critical minerals and rare earths. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2014 EDITORS NOTE: The African countries participating in the invitation-only \u00a0Critical Minerals Ministerial &#8211; Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Sierre Leone and Zambia.\u00a0The United States signed new bilateral critical minerals frameworks or MOUs with Guinea and Morocco. Today the United States, together with our partners and allies, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680694:9645c4d34a5d556866ea8e4c8b4d589f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7129,7522,9587,14185,257,11809,1135,254],"class_list":["post-222936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-critical","tag-fact","tag-minerals","tag-ministerial","tag-news","tag-sheet","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680694:9645c4d34a5d556866ea8e4c8b4d589f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}