Watch this video as Firstpost examines Mali's dramatic gold surge and the growing push by the Alliance of Sahel States to take greater control of the region's mineral wealth. Mali produced 23.5 tonnes of industrial gold in the first half of 2026, up around 30 percent from the same period last year, putting the country on track to meet or exceed its annual target. But this is about much more than mining. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are building a new economic architecture around gold, with combined production estimated at around 230 tonnes a year. At current prices, that represents tens of billions of dollars in potential wealth. With new refineries, greater state participation and tighter control over mining deals, the AES wants more of that value captured at home. But persistent JNIM attacks and insecurity remain a major obstacle. Alyson Le Grange tells you more on Firstpost Africa.

TIME STAMPS:
00:00 - Sahel Gold Boom: Mali's Production Surges 30%
00:25 - H1 2026 Production Breakdown & Annual Targets
00:50 - Output Resiliency Amid Rising Security Threats
01:10 - The AES Strategy: Leveraging Sahel’s 230-Tonne Gold Output
01:35 - Building an Alternative Economic System Beyond ECOWAS
01:55 - Resource Nationalism: Mining Codes & State Takeovers
02:25 - Value-Addition Shift: Regional Refineries in Burkina Faso & Mali
02:55 - Western Miners Continue Operations Alongside Russian Expansion
03:35 - The Critical Bottleneck: JNIM Insurgency & Security Vulnerabilities
03:55 - Testing the Russia Partnership: Can Wealth Be Secured?

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D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his research on kuru, a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea. Over three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the South Pacific to live with him in the United States—an arrangement he framed in philanthropic and anthropological terms.

Years later, Gajdusek pleaded guilty to child abuse. Rachel Aviv follows the complicated afterlives of the boys he brought home, whose stories have never before been fully reported.

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Watch this video as Firstpost examines Ghana’s dramatic new move to tighten control over its gold trade and reshape how Africa’s natural wealth is extracted, processed, and exported. From September 1, Ghana will require unrefined artisanal and small-scale gold to be refined domestically before export, marking a major shift for Africa’s largest gold producer. Ghana produced a record six million ounces of gold in 2025, generating more than $20 billion in export earnings. The move builds on President John Mahama’s wider push for economic sovereignty and the Ghana Gold Board’s efforts to bring the country’s gold trade into the formal economy. But Ghana’s strategy goes beyond gold. Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso are also pushing for greater state control, domestic processing and local value addition across Africa’s mining sector. The bigger battle is over who controls the gold value chain: African producers or foreign financial and refining hubs. Alyson Le Grange tells you more on Firstpost Africa.

00:00 – The End of African Wealth Extraction
00:17 – Ghana's Nationwide Gold Export Ban
00:46 – Why Ghana is Africa’s Gold Giant
01:27 – Economic Sovereignty & Strengthening the Cedi
02:12 – The Role of the Ghana Gold Board (Gold Budge)
03:00 – Challenging the Global Refining System
03:33 – A Continental Resource Reset: Guinea, Mali, & Burkina Faso
04:08 – Moving Up the Value Chain
04:30 – Nelson Mandela on Sovereignty and Allies

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On 15 August 2026, Abdourahmane Tchiani's revolutionary government signed a milestone agreement with Zimar Group to construct a 100,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Dosso.

This is part of the Nigerien government’s efforts to nationalize its resources, breaking the old cycle of exporting raw crude and importing refined products.

The project could allow Niger to capture more value from its hydrocarbon resources, as it is already doing with its other natural resources. It also promises to strengthen its energy security, and create a foundation for greater industrialization within the country and across the Sahelian alliance.

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On 24 February 1966, Ghana's military and police launched a coup that removed President Kwame Nkrumah from power while he was on a diplomatic mission to Asia. The operation, known as "Operation Cold Chop," was carried out with little resistance and brought an end to Nkrumah's increasingly centralised one-party rule.The new regime, known as the National Liberation Council, suspended the constitution, dissolved parliament, and banned the ruling Convention People's Party. Nkrumah, who remained in exile, denounced the coup as an imperialist plot, while his opponents celebrated what they saw as the restoration of political freedom.ITN's Sandy Gall followed the coup on the ground. #coldwar #coup #ghana #kwamenkrumah #history #itnarchive #marxist To license the footage featured in this clip, follow the link below: https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/film?family=editorial&phrase=X02036601*To search the ITN Archive collection on Getty Images, follow the link below:https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/footage/itn🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube channel (tap the bell icon and stay up to date with all the latest ITN Archive videos!) - https://www.youtube.com/@ITNArchive🎥 Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ITNArchive🎥 Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ITNArchiveITNP🎥 Check out our TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@itnarchive1955

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Mansa Musa is widely considered the richest person who ever lived. His wealth was so vast that economists have given up trying to calculate it. During his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, he gave away so much gold in Cairo that he crashed the Egyptian economy for over a decade. But Mansa Musa didn't build this empire alone. He inherited a dynasty — the Keita family — that had been accumulating power and wealth for generations before him. His great-uncle Sundiata Keita, a crippled prince driven into exile, rose from nothing to defeat a tyrant and found the Mali Empire from scratch. At its peak, Mali controlled half the world's gold supply, built one of the greatest universities in history, and commanded a territory larger than Western Europe.

But after Mansa Musa died, everything fell apart. Weak successors, civil wars, power-hungry viziers, and rising enemies tore the empire to pieces. Within two generations, the golden age was over. Within two centuries, the empire was gone entirely. So what really happened to the family that built the richest empire in human history? And where are the Keitas today?

This is the full story of how one dynasty rose from exile and poverty to build the wealthiest empire the world has ever seen — and how they lost it all.

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