The Geographical: New report reveals risk of links between Sudanese conflict gold and major companies

The link between gold – used around the world for everything from fine jewellery to statues, mobile phones to dentistry – and conflict has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. In particular, human rights groups have pointed to the way that gold is fuelling and financing ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where armed groups and members of the Congolese army have made millions of dollars through illegal control of the minerals trade…

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