{"id":239326,"date":"2026-07-23T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-from-lithium-to-nickel-how-the-un-is-helping-countries-make-the-most-of-critical-minerals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:16:02","slug":"congo-kinshasa-from-lithium-to-nickel-how-the-un-is-helping-countries-make-the-most-of-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-from-lithium-to-nickel-how-the-un-is-helping-countries-make-the-most-of-critical-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: From Lithium to Nickel – How the UN Is Helping Countries Make the Most of Critical Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world’s shift to clean energy is driving huge demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper.<\/p>\n

Digging them out of the ground may be the most straightforward part of the process.<\/p>\n

Around the world, the United Nations is helping countries make sure these valuable resources create decent jobs, protect the environment and benefit local communities – not just global supply chains.<\/p>\n

Argentina: Putting communities at the centre of the lithium boom<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The world’s shift to clean energy is driving huge demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper. Digging them out of the ground may be the most straightforward part of the process. Around the world, the United Nations is helping countries make sure these valuable resources create decent jobs, protect the environment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8386,6507,7129,10633,43979,9587,257,5834,254,881],"class_list":["post-239326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congokinshasa","tag-countries","tag-critical","tag-helping","tag-lithium","tag-minerals","tag-news","tag-nickel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239326","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=239326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}