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Ecofin, July 14th, 2025 | Côte d’Ivoire Moves to Legalize and Trace Small-Scale Gold Mining
BusinessLIVE, July 4th, 2025 | Blind spot in SA’s ‘opaque’ gold trade data flagged by foreign NGO
IOL, July 4th, 2025 | How illegal gold mining is thriving in South Africa’s abandoned shafts
Financial Times, June 23th, 2025 | Record prices fuel surge in Sudan conflict gold smuggling
Graphic Online, June 21st, 2025 | Environmental, financial costs of galamsey and illegal clothes dumping
Africa Equity Media, June 17th, 2025 | Ghana bleeds $ 11 billion in Gold smuggling to UAE – report reveals
Mining Technology, June 17th, 2025 | Ghana lost $11bn due to gold smuggling – SWISSAID report
yahoo!finance, June 17th, 2025 | Ghana lost $11bn due to gold smuggling – SWISSAID report
3News, June 16th, 2025 | Ghana loses $11 billion to gold smuggling linked to UAE – SWISSAID report
Reuters, June 16th, 2025 | Ghana has lost $11 billion to gold smuggling, links to UAE, report finds
Sudans Post, June 12th, 2025 | South Sudan loses 5000kg of gold to UAE through Uganda annually
The Kenya Times, June 5th, 2025 | Kenya Exposed as Gold Smuggling Hotspot in New Report
Uzalendo News, June 5th, 2025 | Kenya Implicated in Regional Gold Smuggling Network – SWISSAID Report Reveals Alarming Trend
Nyakundi Report, June 4th, 2025 | Kenya’s Dirty Gold Secret Fueling Conflict and Crime Across Africa
Kenyans, June 4th, 2025 | Kenya Linked to Gold Smuggling From South Sudan, Sudan & DRC – SWISSAID Report
Business Daily, June 4th, 2025 | How billions worth of gold from DRC, Sudan is smuggled via Kenya
Bloomberg, June 3rd, 2025 | Kenya Is a Hub for Smuggled African Gold, Report Says
Daily Mails, June 3rd, 2025 | African Gold Smuggling Network
Middle East Eye, May 19th, 2025 | Russia, the UAE and Sudan’s stolen gold | The Big Picture
swissinfo.ch, May 5th, 2025 | What triggers a SLAPP lawsuit in Switzerland? Gold does
Bluewin, March 29th, 2025 | Foreign aid: SWISSAID and Helvetas support earthquake victims in Myanmar
ntv, March 29th, 2025 | Emergency seed campaign underway to boost farming in arid lands
France 24, March 27th, 2025 | Sudan’s booming wartime gold trade flows through the UAE
Agence Ecofin, January 24th, 2025 | Mali to Heighten Fight Against Illegal Gold Mining
swissinfo.ch, January 23rd, 2025 | Switzerland expands free trade network despite doubts
CNBC, January 18th, 2025 | Why the gold boom is causing a surge in illegal mining.
Engineering News, January 17th, 2025 | Dirty gold, hidden profits – a glimpse into the world of illegal mining in South Africa
Swissinfo, January 11th, 2025 | How Switzerland is working for global biodiversity in global South.
The Independent Uganda, December 20th, 2024 | Most gold from the DRC is smuggled through Uganda and Rwanda
The New York Times, December 17th, 2024 | The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War – Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight.
NZZ, December 10th, 2024 | In Ghana, illegal gold mining is bringing jobs and environmental grief.
swissinfo.ch, December 5th, 2024 | Sanctions enforcement: Bern “cannot rule out” Switzerland gets Russian gold via Central Asia.
Time, November 29th, 2024 | As Christmas approaches, Dubai’s Gold Souk is full. The UAE is a primary actor in in the gold trade in Sudan, this war-torn Northeast African country.
Pulitzer Center, November 26th, 2024 | On the Trail of Gold: Large quantities of gold end up in Europe, for the mining of which people lose their lives and nature is destroyed. Supply chain laws and certificates cannot prevent this. Why not? The author followed the gold from Suriname to Switzerland.
Al Jazeera, November 13th, 2024 | Mali is one of the African countries that exports the most gold – including to Switzerland. The government now wants to profit more from this sector.
The Economist, October 24th, 2024 |Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up in Ghana but but also throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
swissinfo.ch, September 3rd, 2024 | Switzerland’s imports of gold originating in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have boomed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. Experts suggest some could be coming from Russia in violation of international sanctions.
The Economist, August 8th, 2024 | Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom
KOFF, à propos, June 25th, 2024 | In the department of Sucre, Colombia, SWISSAID is committed to helping young people to exercise their right to security, education, freedom of choice and freedom of movement. This forms an essential basis for genuine peace.
swissinfo.ch, June 17th, 2024 | The families of two young Tanzanian artisanal miners killed while prospecting for gold – are pinning their hopes for justice and redress on the British legal system. It’s been almost five years since the two men were killed in separate incidents of alleged police violence at a mine supplying gold to a refinery that is part of the Switzerland-based MKS PAMP SA group.
global, June 21st, 2024 | Alliance Sud reports on the peace process in Colombia and its challenges. SWISSAID organised a parliamentary trip on which the topic of peace was central.
swissinfo.ch, June 8th, 2024 |A UN report criticises the European Free Trade Association, of which Switzerland is a member, for putting pressure on Malaysia and Thailand. The rapporteur speaks of a “potential violation of the right to food”.
Swissinfo, May 30th, 2024 | Hidden wealth: Swiss NGO maps Africa’s undeclared gold flows
Financial Times, May 30th, 2024 | Bulk of gold smuggled from Africa exported to UAE, says report
Reuters, May 30th, 2024 | Gold worth tens of billions smuggled to the UAE each year, report says
CNBC, May 30th, 2024 | Dubai bling: Billions of dollars worth of African gold is being smuggled into the UAE each year, research finds
Business Insider, May 30th, 2024 | Billions in smuggled gold flow from Africa into UAE annually, SwissAid reveals
Bloomberg, May 30th, 2024 | Billions in African Gold Smuggled to UAE Yearly, SWISSAID Says
Billions of dollars of gold is smuggled out of Africa every year, with the vast majority exported to the United Arab Emirates for processing, according to a report by SwissAid.
KOFF, à propos, April 25th, 2024 | SLAPP – A growing threat for NGOs and media representatives
International corporations and oligarchs are bringing action against NGOs and media representatives at increasing rates, with the aim of stopping critical research. SWISSAID has been directly affected after publishing a report on the gold trade in Africa. The lawsuit is eating up time and money, but self-censorship is not an option.
Reuters, March 18th, 2024 | Dirty gold can still slip into London market, rights groups say
The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), which sets standards for the world’s most established gold market, needs to do more to exclude gold linked to human rights abuses or criminality from its supply chain, rights groups said on Monday.
Forbidden Stories, February 1st, 2024 | From Azerbaijan to smartphones: how tainted gold ends up in high tech products
Local residents are complaining about the operation of a mine in Azerbaijan whose gold transits through Switzerland before ending up in our mobile phones.
Swissinfo, November 15th, 2023 | Swiss Federal Court snubs request for gold sector transparency
Switzerland’s Federal Court has turned down a Swiss NGO’s request for detailed data on the origin of gold imported into Switzerland.
Swissinfo, October 31st, 2023 | Swissaid campaigns for climate-friendly ‘superfoods’
To mark World Food Day on Monday, Swiss NGO Swissaid is sounding the alarm: hunger is not going away. The 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that 735 million people are undernourished, compared with 572 million in 2017.
Global Trade Review, April 12th, 2023 | LBMA faces growing calls for transparency over African industrial gold
The Africa Report, March 30th, 2023 | LBMA standards not enough to ensure Africa gold business transparency, says SwissAid
Standards laid down by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the global authority for precious metals, are insufficient to prevent gold refineries from hiding the existence of human rights and environmental issues at African suppliers, new research says.
GRID, July 15th, 2022 | Russia’s bright, shiny anti-sanctions weapon: Inside the billion-dollar business of ‘blood gold’. Why Russian President Vladimir Putin went on a gold-buying spree before invading Ukraine.
Swissinfo, May 17th, 2022 | The article highlights the finding of the gold study of SWISSAID, which is among other things, that Switzerland has recorded a significant increase in gold imports from the United Arab Emirates since the introduction of sanctions against Russia.
Swissinfo, March 30th, 2022 | Swissinfo highlights SWISSAID’s work regarding the published report mapping over 100 business relationships between African industrial gold mines and refineries around the world.
Swissinfo, January 31st, 2022 | Amid growing concern about whether a world battered by climate change will be able to produce enough food to feed the planet, genome editing has been touted as part of the solution in many countries including Switzerland. But an outdated patent system threatens to stifle its potential and put more power in the hands of big business.
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