Attention by African Leaders has to be Diverted towards the Issue of Desertification and Drought for Finding Solutions, Inverview

At present, we are faced with environmental problems related to gold mining and mercury and work in this field must be in conciliation with the environment and we have issued Khartoum Declaration that provides for a capital free of mercury by 2015. All these efforts must be together during the next two years so that the Sudanese individual can enjoy a clean healthy life of a clean breathing air and water.
The Sudan, fortunately, was not among the states declared by the United Nations Organization as having multiple aspects of poverty and environmental destitution because that Sudan has made the right and positive start in the field of environment that led to good results. The policies we have set distance us from the environmental risks and destitution
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