Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker: Grassroots resistance to gold mining must be backed by policy

 Khatmi Hasan, an environmental activist in the area, told Radio Dabanga this week that Akasha has a mining market about a kilometre north of the village. “Two companies, Nugud and El Bashayer, that process mining waste containing mercury and cyanide temporarily store this waste [called karta in Sudan] at the market,” he explained.

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