{"id":241634,"date":"2026-08-20T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-uae-linked-zijin-gold-acquires-stake-in-ethiopian-gold-mine-near-sudan-border\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:30:59","slug":"ethiopia-uae-linked-zijin-gold-acquires-stake-in-ethiopian-gold-mine-near-sudan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-uae-linked-zijin-gold-acquires-stake-in-ethiopian-gold-mine-near-sudan-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: UAE-Linked Zijin Gold Acquires Stake in Ethiopian Gold Mine Near Sudan Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Chinese mining company Zijin Gold International has acquired a 9.2% stake in Canadian mining firm Allied Gold, gaining partial ownership of its portfolio that includes the Kurmuk gold project in Ethiopia&#8217;s Benishangul-Gumuz Region, near the Sudanese border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Investigative journalism reports The deal, worth nearly $300 million, gives Zijin Gold approximately 9.2% of Allied Gold&#8217;s issued and outstanding common shares, the Canadian company announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The acquisition places the Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608200434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Chinese mining company Zijin Gold International has acquired a 9.2% stake in Canadian mining firm Allied Gold, gaining partial ownership of its portfolio that includes the Kurmuk gold project in Ethiopia&#8217;s Benishangul-Gumuz Region, near the Sudanese border. Investigative journalism reports The deal, worth nearly $300 million, gives Zijin Gold approximately 9.2% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[9984,258,256,1900,4716,5939,4644,257,254,9744,4708,1613,55229,55230],"class_list":["post-241634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-acquires","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopian","tag-gold","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-uaelinked","tag-zijin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}