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Mr. Kangai is an institutional capital allocator with 15 years of experience across investment banking, minerals trading, and fund management in Africa. He holds an MBA from INSEAD. He structured the institutional capital framework for UNAMINE and leads strategic capital deployment, investor relations, and sovereign engagement across Zimbabwe and the DRC.

Ms. Moyo is a qualified mining engineer with 18 years of operational leadership across southern Africa. Formerly Production Manager at ZimCoal Ltd, she has led lithium and rare earth projects in Zimbabwe. She manages all on‑site operational teams, supply chain logistics, and environmental compliance for UNAMINE.

Ms. Kasongo is a capital markets and minerals finance specialist with 14 years in commodity trading, export credit, and project finance. Formerly Head of Trade Finance at Standard Bank Zimbabwe, she is a chartered accountant. She oversees capital deployment, investor reporting, offtake negotiations, and financial risk management.

Mr. Mukendi is a sustainability strategist based in the DRC with 12 years of stakeholder alignment experience across complex mining environments. Formerly Director of Social Performance at Glencore Congo operations, he manages benefaction commitments, workforce development, and local partnership sustainability for UNAMINE.

Recent reports indicate the Rwanda-backed M23 movement seeks to directly supply tantalum, tin, and tungsten to the United States, bypassing Kinshasa’s state channel. M23 currently controls Rubaya, which produces approximately 15% of the world’s coltan, generating an estimated $800,000 monthly in illicit revenue. For outside investors, the situation presents a dual risk/reward scenario. Washington’s strategic push to decouple from Chinese-controlled supply chains creates a premium for verifiable, conflict‑free offtake. However, the absence of a formal protection framework for international capital in contested zones remains the primary deterrent. UNAMINE sources capital through structured, government‑backed vehicles and maintains a strict policy of counterparty due diligence aligned with OECD guidance.

The DRC government is finalising a $100 million mine security force backed by US technical assistance, designed to protect critical mineral assets and stabilise the eastern provinces. The initiative includes a dedicated investor protection framework that de‑risks capital deployed in regions affected by artisanal mining and armed group activity. For junior-to-mid-tier operators, this signals a material shift in sovereign risk appetite. UNAMINE views the development as a catalyst for scaled deployment of structured offtake and equipment financing, particularly for tin, tungsten, and tantalum projects located near the newly secured corridors.

The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange is preparing to launch a dedicated Venture Board for junior and exploration-stage mining companies. The board will provide a hard-currency listing venue for lithium, gold, and platinum group metals developers. This is a structural shift for Zimbabwe’s mining finance landscape. UNAMINE has positioned its local subsidiary to provide pre-IPO bridging capital and strategic advisory to qualifying junior miners. Combined with the ongoing reform of Zimbabwe’s beneficiation regulations, the new listing avenue creates a compelling exit pathway for early‑stage capital deployment.

Zimbabwe’s 2027 deadline for the concentrate export ban is accelerating capital deployment into local processing infrastructure. Junior-to-mid-tier lithium producers face a material operational cliff unless they secure crushing, flotation, or DMS capacity. UNAMINE has structured a dedicated lithium beneficiation vehicle to deploy modular processing units at partner mine sites. The model converts run-of-mine ore into spodumene concentrate compliant with offtake requirements for Chinese, European, and US battery manufacturers. The policy framework hardens the investment thesis: value is retained in-country, while offtake flows to global markets.