While the scourge of blood diamonds has been well-documented, the role of blood gold is more insidious but no less ruinous.

Sudan’s gold exports generated $1.5 billion in revenue in the first ten months of 2024, a government official said on ...

Egypt has around 125 traditional mining areas in the Nubian region of southern Egypt. Gold can be found in the Eastern Desert ...

The Wagner Group has earned over $2.5 billion from illicit gold mining since the invasion of Ukraine, according to a report ...

FILE - Gold mine workers climb out from a local mine in Sudan, July 30, 2013. Authorities reported a gold mine collapse March 31, 2023, near the Egyptian border that left 14 workers dead and many ...

is expanding into Australia with the acquisition of gold junior Tennant Consolidated Mining Group (TCMG) for $54.2 million, as it suspends exploration activities in civil-war hit Sudan.

Jebel Uweinat / Amsterdam — Artisanal gold miners in the El Uweinat mountain range near the Egypt-Libya-Sudan tripoint have called on the Sudanese authorities to intervene after an Egyptian army ...

Gold mines are scattered across Sudan, including Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile. Artisanal mining has also drawn hundreds of thousands of gold seekers to the deserts of Sudan's northern and ...

Officials from Sudan's antiquities and museums ... Sudan is Africa's third largest producer of gold, after South Africa and Ghana, with commercial mining bringing in $1.2bn (£900m) to the ...

agreeing for Russia to set up a naval base in Port Sudan and granting concessions on gold mining to Wagner front companies. Jonas Horner, former Horn of Africa senior analyst for Crisis Group ...

According to the Reuters news agency, Sudan hopes to sell gold worth up to $3bn (£617m) this year, double last year's gold revenue. The country has great mining potential, but overall production ...