Sudan: Traditional Mining: Poverty Alleviation vs. Environment Pollution

The miners active in the traditional mining are estimated at about a million in addition to accompanying marginal jobs and services, a situation which resulted in the rise of new and odd behavior alien to the local communities. Moreover, this phenomenon had remarkable economic, environmental and security impacts which reflect directly or indirectly on the local communities, particularly the passive effects resulting from the unwise use of chemicals ( mercury and cyanide) in the mining operations as those substances flow in the valleys, water-streams and ground-water, directly affecting both people and animals.
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