Leaders of Japan, Africa to push for stable supply chains of key minerals

The leaders of Japan and Africa will call for stable supply chains for critical minerals by developing inland transport routes in a joint declaration at an international meeting on the continent later this week, a government source said Tuesday.The declaration will be adopted at the three-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development from Wednesday and will also stress the importance of appropriate debt management and the rule of law, the source said, apparently with China's growing economic and military clout in mind.With U.S. President Donald Trump's high tariff policy jolting…READ FULL ARTICLE