Ghana’s new approach to managing its gold industry is attracting interest from other African countries, with seven nations engaging the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) to learn more about its operations.

Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sudan and Namibia have all held discussions with GoldBod over the past year.

The countries are mainly interested in how Ghana is seeking to strengthen control and regulation of the gold trade and retain more value from the country’s gold resources.

The interest began in September 2025 when Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, visited Ghana.

He met GoldBod Chief Executive Officer Sammy Gyamfi to discuss how Sierra Leone could draw lessons from Ghana’s approach to managing revenue from its mineral resources.

In October 2025, officials from Mozambique’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy also visited Ghana. They studied GoldBod’s approach to regulating gold trading and gold certification.

Tanzania followed in January 2026 with a 15-member delegation from its Minerals Commission.

The delegation studied Ghana’s gold-buying system and the regulations governing the sector. Its leader, Theresia Numbi, said Tanzania chose Ghana after comparing its system with those of other countries.

Tanzania’s interest continued four months later when officials from the Central Bank of Tanzania visited Ghana to learn more about the Domestic Gold Purchasing Programme and GANRAP.

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Zimbabwe also sent a team to Ghana in April 2026. The BetterBrands team focused on Ghana’s efforts to bring artisanal and small-scale gold mining into a more organised system.

The visits indicate growing interest in Ghana’s GoldBod system among African countries seeking to strengthen their management and regulation of the gold sector.

For these countries, Ghana’s experience provides an opportunity to examine approaches to gold trading, sector monitoring and increasing the value retained from mineral resources.

The growing interest has also placed Ghana’s GoldBod model within a broader African discussion about how countries can improve the management of their natural resources.

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