Twenty countries in sub-Saharan Africa are categorized as resource-rich by the International Monetary Fund, but while African soil holds immense riches, the continent’s resources remain woefully under-mapped. The World Bank‘s announcement that it will launch a $1-billion initiative to map the resources in the ground across the African continent has generated great excitement and some criticism.
The project has been dubbed the Billion Dollar Map. The mapping exercise will trigger an
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