Eleven workers were killed and seven others were injured when a gold mine partially collapsed in the northeast, a country that has been struck by a civil war for two years, the National Mines Company announced.
Since April 2023, the army of General Abdel Fatah al -Burhan, the de facto leader of Sudan after the 2021 coup, has clashed with the paramilitary forces of his former deputy commander General Mohammed Hamdan.
The war efforts of both sides are largely funded by mining activity. According to official Sudanese sources and with non -governmental organizations, almost all of the gold trade passes through the United Arab Emirates, a country accused of equipping the DY.
In its announcement, the Mineral Resources (SMRC) company says that tunnels collapsed in the Kirks al -Fil Mine in the isolated Hooved zone, located in the desert, between the cities of Antbara and Haya. Both are controlled by the army.
Eleven people were killed and seven were injured, according to the company that did not clarify when the accident occurred.
Security measures in Sudan mines are considered inadequate. Dangerous chemicals are often used to pollute neighboring areas.
According to mining experts, today much of the gold mined to Sudan is illegally transported to Chad, South Sudan and Egypt and from there to the UAE.
The war in Sudan has cost tens of thousands of people and at least 13 million were displaced and much of the country is starving.
