A Sudanese gold mine collapsed on Wednesday, leaving 38 people dead, the second incident at the same mine this year. “I’m not the first man to have gold mines. It’s true, we have gold mines, and there’s nothing preventing us from working in gold,” a confident Hemeti said in 2019 during a BBC interview. Hemeti’s explosive rise to power also partly explains why he is running gold mines. But he still thinks they are not “monopolising” the country’s gold sector.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 30, 2021 09:47 UTC