Articles about precious metal running short, indicating African country (7)
I believe the answer is:
angolan
'african country' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'articles about precious metal running short' is the wordplay.
'articles' becomes 'anan' (the indefinite article 'an', twice).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'precious metal' becomes 'gold' (gold is a precious metal).
'running short' means to remove the last letter.
'gold' with its last letter removed is 'gol'.
'anan' placed around 'gol' is 'ANGOLAN'.
'indicating' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for angolan that I've seen before include "from Africa" , "One from Luanda" , "Coming from a southwest African country" , "Eg, native of Luanda" .)