非洲金融公司（Africa Finance Corporation）的矿业和金属部门负责人表示，该机构正在寻找铁矿石和铀的投资机会，以寻求扩大其在非洲大陆关键矿产项目中的影响力。
The Africa Finance Corporation is looking for investments in iron ore and uranium as it seeks to expand its reach in critical minerals projects on the continent, the agency's head of mining and metals said.
关键矿产已成为全球竞争的焦点，美国和其他主要经济体正寻求确保电动汽车和可再生能源的供应链，同时减少对中国的依赖。
Critical minerals have become a focal point of global competition, with the US and other major economies seeking to secure supply chains for electric vehicles and renewable energy while reducing dependence on China.
n这家总部位于拉各斯的泛大陆金融机构的副主任兼矿业负责人富兰克林·埃多奇（Franklin Edochie）表示，该机构对非洲矿业部门的兴趣广泛，涵盖贵金属、基础金属以及关键矿产。
Franklin Edochie, deputy director and head of mining at the Lagos-based continental financial institution, said the agency's interest in Africa's mining sector is broad, spanning precious and base metals as well as critical minerals.
非洲金融公司在非洲各地已经涉足黄金、铝土矿、铜和锰等矿产，现在希望增加铁矿石和铀。
AFC already has interests in minerals such as gold, bauxite, copper and manganese across Africa, and now wants to add iron ore and uranium.
埃多奇在开普敦的一次采矿会议间隙发言时表示，在未来10年内，几内亚、利比里亚、毛里塔尼亚和塞拉利昂的综合产量在产量方面“很容易”相当于前三大铁矿石生产国。
Speaking on the sidelines of a mining conference in Cape Town, Edochie said combined output from Guinea, Liberia, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone could over the next 10 years "easily" equate to a top three iron ore producer in volume terms.
他补充说：“我们正致力于为这些项目提供融资。希望在未来6到12个月内，我们能够公布一些关于铀和铁矿石投资的消息。”非洲金融公司也是美国支持的洛比托矿产运输走廊的主要开发商，该走廊将非洲的铜矿和钴矿与大西洋海岸连接起来。
"We are working towards financing those projects," he added. "Hopefully, within the next 6 to 12 months, we should be able to announce something (on uranium and iron ore investments).”AFC is also lead developer of the US-backed Lobito minerals transport corridor linking African copper and cobalt mines to the Atlantic coast.
该走廊将结合新的和现有的铁路线，把赞比亚和刚果民主共和国的矿山连接到安哥拉的大西洋港口洛比托。
The corridor will combine new and existing railway lines linking mines in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Angola's Atlantic port of Lobito.