SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Anti-mining protests span length of Sudan

23/9/19: Radio Dabanga – Anti-mining protests span length of Sudan

 Radio Dabanga reports that ongoing ddemonstrations against toxic gold mining operations in South Kordofan have been joined by public protests at Wadi Halfa in Sudan’s Northern State.

 The sit-in against gold mining companies has entered its third week, with demonstrators calling for companies and the Rapid Support Forces to be expelled from the area, and for an investigation into the environmental degradation – particularly the use of cyanide in gold extraction operations.

 A leader from the Forces of Freedom and Change, Mohamed El Mustafa told Radio Dabanga that the demonstrators are determined to remain there until their demands are met: including the removals of the acting state governor who “people have realised…is not serious in his decision to remove these companies from these areas, and is unwilling to implement his decision of expelling these [Rapid Support Forces] from the gold mines.”