{"id":134308,"date":"2025-08-11T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134308"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:22:33","slug":"global-uncertainties-drive-chinese-rush-to-african-goldfields-despite-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134308","title":{"rendered":"Global uncertainties drive Chinese rush to African goldfields, despite the risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese companies and miners in Africa are facing severe security threats from armed groups in search of gold, driven by soaring global prices for the precious metal.<br \/>\nMultiple attacks and kidnappings targeting gold miners have been reported from Ghana, the Central African Republic, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent months.<br \/>\nIn Mali \u2013 one of Africa\u2019s top gold producers \u2013 the Chinese embassy has repeatedly warned its citizens against operating gold mines in the country because of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3321419\/global-uncertainties-drive-chinese-rush-african-goldfields-despite-risks?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese companies and miners in Africa are facing severe security threats from armed groups in search of gold, driven by soaring global prices for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}