Radio Dabanga: Conflict gold: New report urges tech, jewellery, financial, and auto industries to use ‘responsible’ sources

With more than $4 billion in gold flowing out of East and Central Africa into international markets annually, the technology, jewellery, financial, and automotive sectors are increasingly at risk of purchasing gold via Dubai that benefits armed groups responsible for mass atrocities in multiple countries in the region, including Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR), and South Sudan via Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to a new report compiled by Sasha Lezhnev of The Sentry released yesterday.

As reported by Radio Dabanga in January, the director of the Sudanese Company for Mineral Resources, Mubarak Ardol, reported in a press statement that the total gold production of Sudan in 2020 reached 36.6 tons, which is 9.6 tons more than in 2019…

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