Dozens of gold workers in northern Sudan were killed over the weekend after warplanes bombed an open air mine near the Egyptian border, according to Sudanese rights groups, graphic video and eyewitnesses interviewed by The New York Times. - Facebook
Dozens of gold workers in northern Sudan were killed over the weekend after warplanes bombed an open air mine near the Egyptian border, according to Sudanese rights groups, graphic video and eyewitnesses interviewed by The New York Times. - Facebook
Source: Facebook
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DW NOTE
Sudan's civil war has killed at least 20,000 since April 2023, mostly civilians caught between RSF militias and government forces fighting for control of gold deposits. Bombing artisanal miners at the Egyptian border isn't collateral damage — it's what happens when both sides fund their war machines by taxing extraction at gunpoint and neither can afford witnesses to the arrangement.