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- Gold bullion blocks are pictured at gold refinery in Khartoum on 11 October 2012 (SUNA)
- Sunday 11 November 2012
November 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan and China have agreed to work towards increasing the former’s oil production and boosting cooperation in the field of mining, officials said. An oil refinery built and financed by China, 100 km from (...)
- Friday 29 March 2013
March 28, 2013(BOR) – South Sudan’s Jonglei state residents have started illegal gold mining and smuggling into neighbouring Ethiopia for sale to make ends meet, a local government official said Thursday. Logudo Johnson speaks during the (...)
- Friday 12 October 2012
October 11, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan is set to ship the first batch of gold coming out of the refinery inaugurated last month according to an official in Khartoum. Gold bullion blocks are pictured at gold refinery in Khartoum on 11 (...)
- Tuesday 19 June 2012
By Julius N. Uma
June 18, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan should expedite its mining legislation as a mechanism to address transparency accountability and proper management in the country’s mining sector, Tim Fischer, the special envoy to (...)
- Friday 18 January 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – A Canadian mining company has failed to stop serious human rights abuses against Eritrean employees working at a gold-mining exploitation project, a new report by Human Rights Watch (...)
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