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Africa Set to Test Critical Minerals-Backed Currency

Africa Set to Test Critical Minerals-Backed Currency

Last updated: August 23, 2025 1:49 am
By Darren Taylor
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Africa Set to Test Critical Minerals-Backed Currency

A miner displays diamonds dug out of a disused mine in Komaggas, South Africa, in June 2012. Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—Major countries and regional blocs in Africa are throwing their weight behind an ambitious plan to establish a “noncirculating” currency backed by critical minerals, which are crucial to technological development, defense, and economic growth.

Analysts say a denomination based on commodities could reduce Africa’s reliance on foreign currencies—especially the U.S. dollar—and decrease its dependence on loans from China, Europe, the United States, and global financial institutions such as the World Bank.

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