Sudan: Poisonous Practice - the Ongoing Fight to Close Gold Mines – AuthenticAfrican

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[Ayin English] "Companies leave our land! Health before everything!" shouted demonstrators last week in Kalogi, South Kordofan State. Civilians are in protest over the on-going presence of gold mine companies whose widespread use of cyanide in their gold extraction process continues to detrimentally affect the environment, local citizens told Ayin.