Barkal Gold Associates is a highly experienced British gold trading firm located in London, Grand Genève, Istanbul, and Port Sudan/Khartoum.
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Our core experience is fostered from over a decade of working in Africa and marketing and global export facilitation of gold dore bars at scale, procured from throughout the continent's producing countries.
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​Barkal Gold Associates is the trading company to have on your side for all your direct and on the ground gold dore bar requirements from Africa, sourced from the leading and middle-ranking gold producers on the continent.
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Barkal Gold Associates is the comprehensive service global supplier for discounted African-origin gold dore bars – facilitated solely via bank-to-bank based transactions.​
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We provide the most reliable and professional gold sourcing and supply services available of the continent's world renowned highly quality gold dore bars. No other firm matches our reach and network of suppliers across the continent when it comes to procuring discounted gold dore bars competitively at both value and scale - with integrity, transparency, and reliabilty of service and  supply all guaranteed.
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​Rest assured, too: gold dore bar offerings sourced in Africa by Barkal Gold Associates have been vetted painstakingly to ensure that they are supplied to buyers free from human rights abuses, ring-fenced from any local jurisdictional conflict zones, conform to international labour and environmental standards, and are free from any criminal, and terrorist or illegal activities.
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​Our target at Barkal Gold Associates is simple: de-risking to the maximum the procurement of gold dore bars from Africa by global buyers.
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Procured gold dore bars are lifted and delivered straight from our network of suppliers straight by world renowned security and logistics companies tarmac-side, and onward by commercial airlines and road to the buyer's nominated refinery, which is invariably, though not exclusively, located in the United Arab Emirates. Thereafter, the gold dore bars are offloaded at the refinery for a final assay within the presence of representatives of both the buyer and seller parties, and a binding assay report is issued, as per the SPA signed by both parties, with the gold dore bars re-refined by the buyer at their designated refinery into five nines fine bars.
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No matter if your aim is to buy a comparatively small amount or tonnes of Africa's gold dore bars, Barkal Gold Associates has the product and sourcing services available to meet virtually any requirements. We only work with earnest and professional buyers and sellers of gold because we are extremely diligent about the comprehensive services that we provide.
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All our gold transactions are conducted with upmost professionalism, integrity transparency, and in the most secure way possible.
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​And we improve market clearance by extending access to Africa's gold globally through deploying insurance, security, and risk-free logistics all the way to our buyer’s nominated refinery.
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​Our business transparency strengthens the connections between our suppliers and clients ensuring water-tight performing transactions.
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 The core management of Barkal Gold Associates has over a decade of experience working in Africa and gold and commodity trading.

Honesty and integrity lie left-front-and centre of Barkal Gold Associates, led by its founder and managing director, Ahmed Badawi, a London-born, educated, and raised UK national.
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He has an outstanding global professional record, encompassing the UK, USA, and Sudan.
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​The client management focus, skill set, integrity, and professional work experience of Ahmed Badawi is complemented perfectly by Dr Amir Elsharif, CEO of Barkal Gold Associates. A trained medical doctor and graduate of King's College, University of London, Dr. Amir Elsharif spent over a decade as a senior manager at the Italian energy giant, ENI, where he was responsible for HSE management across ENI's operations in the Gulf countries, where he has also resided.
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​A qualified risk specialist, Dr Amir Elsharif has extensive global commodity trading expertise, including in the gold, hydrocarbons, sugar, and agricultural commodities sector. He hails from an exceptional mercantalist family background in Sudan, which has its historical roots in the Maghreb region and Saudi Arabia.
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​Dr Elsharif is at the nexus of Barkal Gold's trading and operational strategy across Africa and, like Ahmed Badawi, visits Africa frequently to inventorise, reshape, and pre-screen its network of gold dore bar  suppliers in a number of jurisdictions across Africa. 
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Our confidence in the integrity of our gold offering stems from being regularly on the ground throughout the African continent (and with our heritage born of its soil) getting our shoes dusty and muddy there and fostering local relationships within gold producers, communities, and government officials in countries and regions that most would never visit.
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Barkal Gold Associates believes strongly in easing market clearing in the African gold export sector by extending global access of our gold offering through deploying insurance, security, and risk-free logistics throughout the continent: all sales of gold are made on a CIF basis.​

​This locks in the business transparency and integrity and strengthens the connections between our gold dore suppliers and our clients ensuring water-tight transactions. And it's also why we use only the best when it comes to controlled and secure access to gold dore bar suppliers for clients that may have had less-than stellar buying experience elsewhere: Barkal Gold Associates uses Brinks, Transguard and other legendary security and logistics firms to provide a full service logistics based security service for each and every gold transaction that we facilitate.