How does West Africa go on fire in the Shahel district

It’s been a good year for gold. Many turbulent events in the global economy increased the prices of a glitter trade in 2025 to celebrate high prices.

In the world of tariffs and international conflict, gold, as one of the remaining stable assets, is appealed to investors. Everyone wants a part of the movement from central banks to large organizations such as hedge funds and retail investors. However, a lot of the gold of several people knows or a lot about magnets or can be fueled in countries where they are minted.

Share for the governments of the West Africa’s Sahel region are even higher. Burkina Faso, a lifetime for gold, jihadist rebels, regional isolation, regional isolation, regional isolation and climate change, is a lifetime for Mali and Nigerin military.

“For the fact that gold prices are at a height of history … Military governments hope to be able to benefit directly,” Bevc is a senior researcher in the risks of the global consulting company.

Together, the three provinces of the Gold Council, about 230 tons of gold, about $ 15 billion (11 billion pounds) (11 billion pounds) (£ 11 billion).

The lack of records for artisanal and small-scale gold cultural shows that this figure is likely that it is likely.

In these three countries, the combined gold production exceeds any other country in Africa, which makes the Sahel region a major global participant in the gold market.

The governments say that the kindness of citizens between the “sovereignty” from the lucrative sector is growing – even if Russian companies increase their stakes in the parents in the company.

For example, Mali’s hunt leader Gen Assimi Goïta Last month put the foundation stone for a gold processing plantThere will be a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran group, the share of minorities. The refinery is reportedly created by 500 direct work and 2000 indirect work.

Burkina Faso also builds a gold processing plant for the first time and provides a mining company developed by the state that requires 15% of foreign companies to share 15% in local operations and the transfer of skills to Burkinabé.

Fake AI media campaigns, the country’s charismatic 37-year-old military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré’nin called such an important flow for the nation, he said.

“Deep dirty mining gold. But the spirits are rich and truth, Rihanna created in the last song, Rihanna, Silk, silk and autobal traore sheds automatically adjustable recipes.

According to MS Ochieng, the MS Ochieng reports that Burkina Faso and neighbors needed a quick cash to finance counter-related cooperation campaigns.

In the case of Mali, most of this came to the Russian hiring, including Russian mercenaries, including African corps, including the Russian corps of the Russian Defense Ministry, including African corps, including African corps, and its successor.

The African Corps is involved in military training in Burkina Faso, but the hunt is officially rejected.

Although social spending transparency in the countries is weak, it is thought to have been devoting large parts of government budgets to national security.

The military expenditures in finance are 22% of the national budget by 2020 since 2010.

Governments are fighting in al-Qaeda and the Islamic state (IS).

However, the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the atrocities of the atrocities, summary of the atrocities, summary of the laws and civilians, including a summary derivatives and torture.

Burkina documented similar atrocities by the military and allied militia.

For their services, Wagner Group and now are paid directly in gold or mining discounts in the African Corps, London, Chatham House’s Alex Grapes or Mining Discounts.

“Very few (gold revenues) will descend to Mallians and Burkinabés,” he said, “He added that in fact, the armed rebels themselves can benefit from gold.

Since the coup in 2021, the tactics of cihards or sympathy about the cihards were rising or sympathetic to jihadists, and more civilians were pushed to join the groups they fought.

Jamat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda branch in the region, an al-Qaeda branch, in the first half of 2025, attacked Burkina Faso servicemen.

The armed groups also cashed the global appetite for gold.

A large part of the gold mine in the area is often a remote from the government control from an artist and small-scale sector, in informal and illegal areas, According to a gold cultural report in 2023 In the Sahel by the United Nations Drugs and Criminal and Crime (UNODC).

Armed groups, including jihadist groups and sahel governments participate in the competition for most of these small-scale gold mines.

Gold provides an important flow of income for militant groups that expand the territorial effects in both Mali and Burkina Faso.

UNODC thinks of such a mining species, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), gold cleaner (UAE) for gold cleansing and trade ends.

“You have coincided with the overlap of violent extremist groups moving to the production areas of crafts for control,” said Dr. Vines.

In gold prices, global spike can be stretched and exacerbated -, unfortunately, the artist did not cause salaries to winners in gold mines.

A gold miner in the northern Kidal region of Mali, fearing the security of the security, agreed to answer written questions from the BBC in connection with the anonymity.

He guessed the “Good day” to 10,000 to 20,000 CFA francs or about $ 18-36 (£ 18-36).

According to him, the amount he paid was not in the increase in global gold prices, he said.

“Prices rose, but additional savings go to mine owners … This is risky and uncertain, but it is the only choice for many of us.”

Earlier, Dr. Dr., who worked as a blood diamond investigator for the UN, is concerned that gold becomes a new major conflict in Africa.

He noted that the gold did not receive the same international attention as a diamond, which was bloodshed in several African countries in the 1990s, especially in the 1990s.

Human rights groups and UN intervention in 2003 Kimberley process caused the establishment of a certification scheme, which ended the sale of the so-called “blood diamond”.

However, attempts to crack in blood gold were less successful.

This is partly due to the lack of uniform ethical standards. The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) meets standards in the Gold market, a global body, by a global body, the standards based on the rules designated by the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization.

The UAE’s implementation of these rules has historically patchy.

In 2021, the country announced its standards for ethical gold culture – but the framework remains voluntarily. The issue of execution led to tension between the Gulf State and the LBMA in the past.

Tracking technology represents another barrier.

There is no ‘DNA test’ for gold. Make a lot of effort. With many diligent, polished and cut, you can watch the diamonds before … But I don’t watch the origin of a golden nugget, “said Dr. Hines.

The gold value melts early in the chain, it is almost impossible to watch and connect it to potential zones.

Dr. Vines believes that some blood gold from the sahel is likely to end in the UK markets.

“(Gold) melts in the UAE, then the jewelry is in the manufacturing industry, then to dentistry or dentistry or a dentistry.

According to Dr. Vines, another reason that the Kimberley process will be difficult to repeat the success is not intended to deal with state governments.

“In places such as Kimberley Sierra Leone and Liberia, it was designed to deal with non-governmental actors.”

So far, the importance of gold for the implementation of Sahel governments and ethical gold standards, indicates that it is likely to continue to change, regardless of the origin of the commodity.

Unfortunately, for some communities in the field, it means paying for trade in blood.