{"id":225898,"date":"2026-03-03T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-ustda-partners-in-mozambique-to-diversify-rare-earths-supply-chains\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:15:48","slug":"mozambique-ustda-partners-in-mozambique-to-diversify-rare-earths-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-ustda-partners-in-mozambique-to-diversify-rare-earths-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Ustda Partners in Mozambique to Diversify Rare Earths Supply Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"87\">The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is strengthening America&#8217;s vital supply chains through support for a rare earths mining project in Mozambique. Today, USTDA signed an agreement to fund a pre-feasibility study for Mozambican mining company Monte Muambe Mining Ltda (MMM) that will derisk the development of a new mine and processing facility to produce rare earth materials that are critical to America&#8217;s commercial and defense interests. USTDA&#8217;s funding will help build resilient, diversified&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603030313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is strengthening America&#8217;s vital supply chains through support for a rare earths mining project in Mozambique. Today, USTDA signed an agreement to fund a pre-feasibility study for Mozambican mining company Monte Muambe Mining Ltda (MMM) that will derisk the development of a new mine and processing facility to produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,28497,11724,21195,4704,682,257,5189,18582,254,5236,46231],"class_list":["post-225898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chains","tag-diversify","tag-earths","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-partners","tag-rare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-ustda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225898","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}