An exclusive video report on the Lobito Corridor from remote Zambia near the DRC and Angola.

Copper, nickel, cobalt, gold and much more – the “critical minerals” riches of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo have ignited a geopolitical race for control of the world’s future economy and an epic project: the Lobito Corridor.

On the one side is China, dominant in mining and processing these minerals for clean energy and high tech, and a huge presence in Africa as the continent’s top international trade partner. On the other side, the United States, Europe and Asian allies – all seeking to build a friendly minerals supply chain from resource-rich central Africa to the Atlantic via Angola. That’s Lobito.

Afrologi founder Edward DeMarco, who has reported on the geopolitics of green energy, heads into remote northwestern Zambia in search of the emerging Lobito Corridor. Along the way he meets the chiefs, government officials, planners and rural residents whose lives may be forever changed by this immense initiative.

Lobito seeks to connect southern Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans, and to create an investment zone for renewable energy, digital transformation and mega agriculture to feed Africa and international markets.

Extending from Angola’s port of Lobito toward the southern DRC’s mining region and southward into the heart of Zambia’s copper belt, the Lobito rail and investment corridor is one part of this vision. The other is linking Lobito to the upgraded TAZARA railway (named for Tanzania and Zambia) built by China in the 1970s to the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean.

This two-ocean plan, backed by the United States and Europe, is one of Africa’s most ambitious projects – and in this exclusive video, you’re coming along for the ride into the heart of the Lobito Corridor.