WAEMU’s foreign exchange reserves rose 42% in 2024 to reach CFA13.5 trillion • The jump was driven by stronger export earnings, rising gold prices, and a better external environment • The boost could ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

Currently, there is a high global demand for strategic minerals. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the market size doubled in recent years, ...