{"id":35206,"date":"2025-09-21T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35206\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:43:07","slug":"sierra-leone-finance-minister-explores-goldbod-model-for-minerals-revenue-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35206\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone finance minister explores Goldbod model for minerals revenue reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Sierra-Leone-finance-minister-explores-Goldbod-model-for-minerals-revenue-reforms-2001666?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/81387472.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Gyamfi (L), Sierra Leonean finance minister (R)\" title=\"Sammy Gyamfi (L), Sierra Leonean finance minister (R)\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/> <\/a>Sammy Gyamfi (L), Sierra Leonean finance minister (R)<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The\u00a0Minister of Finance\u00a0of\u00a0Sierra Leone, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, has praised the achievements of\u00a0the Ghana Gold Board, noting that the institution has established itself as a blueprint for sustainable gold sector reforms in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Sierra Leone is ready to adapt Ghana\u2019s Goldbod model to strengthen its mineral revenue management and drive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He made these known when he paid a courtesy call to the CEO of Goldbod.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes at a time when GoldBod is spearheading new initiatives to modernize gold trading in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/How-can-5-month-old-GoldBod-be-responsible-for-age-long-galamsey-problem-Sammy-Gyamfi-2001484\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How can 5-month-old GoldBod be responsible for age-long \u2018galamsey\u2019 problem? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), GoldBod is exploring innovative platforms such as tokenization and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), while engaging with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to ensure investor protection.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to expand access to gold ownership and investment opportunities, while positioning Ghana as a leader in structured gold markets on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has so far exported 66.7 tonnes of small-scale gold, worth approximately US$6 billion, surpassing both the total for the previous year and the output from large-scale mining in the first eight months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Sheku Fantamadi Bangura, visited <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhanaGOLDBOD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GhanaGOLDBOD<\/a> CEO <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sammy Gyamfi<\/a> to discuss GoldBod&#8217;s success and explore adopting its model for economic growth in Sierra Leone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vwT8I6vhVT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vwT8I6vhVT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sammy Gyamfi<\/a> (@SammyGyamfi_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SammyGyamfi_\/status\/1968704745763140036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 18, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SP\/EB<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest edition of BizTech below:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sammy Gyamfi (L), Sierra Leonean finance minister (R) The\u00a0Minister of Finance\u00a0of\u00a0Sierra Leone, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, has praised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-35206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}