Both sides of the current conflict have used gold to finance the war, much of it produced informally through small-scale artisanal mining — a sector that employed over one million people in 2017. Even before the conflict, communities across Sudan were already experiencing the environmental impacts of gold mining, including land degradation, high erosion and siltation rates, and contamination from cyanide and mercury.
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