Dossiers: Our Topic Hubs on Latin America and Africa
A dossier gathers everything The Rio Times has published on one topic, from explainers to daily market reports, into a single page that updates itself. Each one also shows the latest prediction-market odds where a relevant market exists.
We cover Latin America and Africa from the same newsroom, so the topics below often run across both regions. New dossiers appear here automatically as we add them.
Latin America
Lithium in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and the newer projects in Brazil, Peru and Mexico: news, explainers and daily market reports on the battery metal.
Open the dossier →Copper in Latin America
Chile, Peru and the Andean mines: output, strikes, tariffs and prices, with daily market reports and odds on US copper tariffs.
Open the dossier →Africa
Critical Minerals in Africa
Cobalt, copper, lithium, rare earths and graphite from Congo to Zimbabwe: who mines, who buys and who sets the rules.
Open the dossier →Great Powers in Africa
How China, Russia, the United States, the Gulf states, Europe, Turkey and India compete for ports, minerals and military access in Africa.
Open the dossier →Horn of Africa and the Red Sea
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, the Houthis and Djibouti: the conflicts around the southern gateway of the Red Sea.
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