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A recent one relationship of the non-profit organization Global Witness, based in the UK and US, details how a new mining rush driven by demand for minerals to produce clean energy is risking reproducing the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries for centuries.The organization's investigation is based on some projects lithium extraction in Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia:in all three extraction projects the dynamics of exploitation who have plundered African territories to this day, reproducing forms of extractive colonialism which again only has the materials that are extracted. We hear more and more often about the need for energy transition as salvation from climate change and the environmental crisis;an energy transition based on "new materials", the so-called "rare earths", necessary for energy storage and for electric vehicles, but not only.In fact, rare earths are used for the increasingly faster process of digit...