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After gold’s 2025 surge, is Africa ready to capture more value in 2026?

Gold mine. Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel @ Unsplash
Gold mine. Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel @ Unsplash

Gold’s 2025 rally redefined global markets. Africa’s producers now must balance policy reform, value addition and market access to fully capitalise in 2026.

Global gold trading experienced a historic boom last year, with record prices and heightened investor demand as central banks and institutional investors piled into the safe-haven asset amid economic uncertainty.

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