Namibia a key player in supply of critical minerals

Chamwe Kaira

Namibia has been cited as an important country in the global supply of critical minerals.

At the Critical Minerals Forum’s US-Africa Investment Summit, the United States Ambassador to Namibia, John Giordano, delivered a keynote address highlighting Namibia’s growing importance in the global race to secure critical minerals, energy resources and integrated industrial systems.

Giordano emphasised that the global economy is entering a new phase in which economic power is increasingly determined not only by access to natural resources but by the ability of countries to build “systems that scale”.

These systems connect resources, infrastructure, energy, capital and technology into functioning value chains that can sustain long-term industrial growth.