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<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2511/796280-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="An Apple logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on 25 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >An Apple logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on 25 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo&lt;/span><p>A US-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker's denials.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/apple-faces-new-lawsuit-over-congo-conflict-minerals-396458a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=263733">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2511/794489-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="Women walk past a Mozambique soldier inside a camp for the internally displaced in the town of Quitunda, Mozambique, 22 September 2021. Image credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >Women walk past a Mozambique soldier inside a camp for the internally displaced in the town of Quitunda, Mozambique, 22 September 2021. Image credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo&lt;/span><p>Hotel manager Fernando Cuna waited four years for TotalEnergies to resume construction of its $20bn liquefied natural gas project on Mozambique's coast, hoping it would bring clients to the nearby town of Palma. In a province where the average household income is less than $1 per day, locals like Cuna invested in hotels, catering and transport to benefit from the French oil major's 13 million tonne-per-year LNG project, only to see it suspended in 2021 due to Islamist militant attacks that killed dozens in Palma.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/locals-angry-over-totalenergies-enclave-model-in-mozambique-407099a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=263285">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2511/793311-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="A Chevron logo at the Chevron building in Houston, Texas, US, 19 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >A Chevron logo at the Chevron building in Houston, Texas, US, 19 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee/File Photo&lt;/span><p>Chevron is looking to expand its acreage in West Africa, which is a strategic region for the US oil major, a senior executive said after striking a deal to explore for oil in two offshore blocks in Guinea-Bissau.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/chevron-sets-its-sights-on-west-africa-for-oil-exploration-626421a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=262961">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2510/792952-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="Image credit: on" align="left"><br><span >Image credit: <a href="https://unsplash.com/@aboodi_vm?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">aboodi vesakaran</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-flag-on-a-flagpole-yMwqKyPMiyY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>&lt;/span><p>Mali has revoked more than 90 mining exploration permits, including those held by subsidiaries of international mining companies, according to an official decree seen by <i>Reuters</i>. Companies affected include local subsidiaries of Harmony Gold, IAMGOLD, Cora Gold, Birimian Gold, and Resolute Mining.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/harmony-gold-and-others-lose-mining-permits-in-mali-515730a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=262846">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>