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The Dispatch · Issue no. 00128 Sept 2026
This issue
- 1EnergyInside Africa's largest oil refineryHow 650,000 barrels a day could change who imports fuel in West Africa.
- 2MiningThe copper under CongoOne of the world's highest-grade copper mines, and the towns that grew around it.
- 3MiningUranium in the Namib desertHow a desert mine runs on desalinated seawater, and who it employs.
“The engineer told us the hardest part wasn't the machinery. It was explaining it.”
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