At least 60 people were killed in a gold mine collapse on Sunday in a remote area north of the town of al-Nuhud in Sudan's West Kordofan, three local sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Sudan is one of Africa's largest gold producers, but the vast majority of its gold is produced through dangerous artisan mining techniques and later smuggled out of the country © Mena Today
At least 60 people were killed in a gold mine collapse on Sunday in a remote area north of the town of al-Nuhud in Sudan's West Kordofan, three local sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Sudan is one of Africa's largest gold producers, but the vast majority of its gold is produced through dangerous artisan mining techniques and later smuggled out of the country.
The local sources said the high death toll at the remote site was due to the lack of safety procedures or rescue equipment at the makeshift wells. West Kordofan is under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, for whom gold mining is a key source of revenue.
Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz
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G7 foreign ministers and the European Union's foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to stop all actions that could lead to further atrocities or endanger civilians in El-Obeid.
The Sudanese army has conditioned any broad acceptance of a U.S. proposal for ending the country's three-year-old civil war on the full withdrawal by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces from cities it has occupied, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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