Mkango Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:MKA) (“Corporation” or “Mkango”) congratulates Her Excellency the State President Madam Joyce H. N Banda on becoming the Republic of Malawi’s new State President following a peaceful, constitutional and democratic transfer of power, following the recent passing away of His Excellency the State President Dr Bingu wa Mutharika. We send our sympathy and condolences to the Family of the Late State President Dr Bingu wa Mutharika and to the Government and people of the Republic of Malawi.

Mkango pledges its full support to Her Excellency the State President Madam Joyce H.N Banda and the Government of the Republic of Malawi. Her Excellency the State President Madam Joyce H.N Banda gained international recognition when she founded the Malawian National Association of Business Women, a group that assists small-scale traders and also The Joyce Banda Foundation, a charity that assists Malawian children and orphans through education. In 1997 Madam Joyce H.N Banda was awarded, along with former Mozambican President Joachim Chissano, the USA – based Hunger Project’s – Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger.

Mkango Resources Limited continues to progress the exploration at the Songwe Hill Rare Earth project and at the Tambani licence which as well as REE’s has potential for Zircon, Uranium, Niobium and Corundum.

Mkango Resources Ltd.

Mkango’s primary business is the exploration for rare earth elements and associated minerals in the Republic of Malawi. It holds, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lancaster, a 100% interest in two exclusive prospecting licenses covering a combined area of 1,751 km² in southern Malawi. The main exploration target is the Songwe Hill rare earth deposit, which features carbonatite hosted rare earth mineralisation and was subject to previous exploration in the late 1980s.

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