According to UN experts and other analysts, more than half – and by some estimates as much as 70% – of Sudan’s gold is smuggled out of the country each year. The RSF controls most goldfields in Darfur and Kordofan – in the western and central areas of the country, while the Sudanese army oversees…
More and more central banks are storing gold bullion at home rather than overseas, as they expect to buy more of the safe-haven asset amid heightened geopolitical tensions. These are among the findings of the World Gold Council’s annual Central Bank Gold Reserves survey. It found that monetary authorities still see gold as a key…
A C.I.A. employee who was found recently with $40 million of gold bars in his house had created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself, according to two U.S. officials. David Rush, the employee, created a fake “special access program,” a sensitive intelligence tool that has highly…
An auction of oil leases in Alaska’s remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended on Friday with just nine bids covering only about 10 percent of the available land, undercutting President Trump’s claims that drilling in the pristine wilderness area would set off an economic boom. The sale brought in about $3.7 million, nearly half of…
After the local Islamic State affiliate attacked his farm, Mumbere Saidi fled to the gold mines in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, trekking 200 miles across one of Africa’s most dangerous war zones. He found backbreaking work in a remote mining town where he panned for gold. When times were good, Mr. Saidi, 27, sent…
PARIS (AP) — Naomi Osaka keeps bringing the fashion in Paris. For the walk-on before her second match at the French Open, the tennis star wore a metallic gold bomber jacket over her sequined gold playing dress, offset by an ivory train in a look that mixes sportswear with couture. Advertisement Osaka then took off…
Argor-Heraeus’ CEO Robin Kolvenbach holds one kilo bars of silver and gold at the plant of refiner and bar manufacturer Argor-Heraeus in Mendrisio, Switzerland, July 13, 2022. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The rally that propelled gold and silver to record-breaking highs in 2025 could pick up again if a U.S.-Iran peace deal is reached, market…
Gold pure gold bar models captured in Shanghai, China on March 15, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Gold and oil have been two of the hottest trades of the last 12 months, but one could be causing the other to falter now. What’s good for energy stocks may be bad for precious…
The West African country holds Africa’s third-largest gold reserves, plus vast lithium and uranium deposits. Mali has been gripped by a succession of coups, political instability and a security crisis since at least 2012. In the most recent upheaval on April 25, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group joined forces with Tuareg separatists to launch simultaneous attacks…
Almost three years ago, I became obsessed with gold. I’d been watching the price shoot up for two decades. By December of 2023, gold was an eye-watering $2,000 an ounce, inflated by the anxiety of wealthy investors and governments. They worried about terrorist attacks and wars and financial instability and, lately, disease. Gold, they reasoned,…
