He explained that a native administration leader of Sodari had filed a complaint against them after they accused the native administration in the locality of “backing out from its decision to combat the use of cyanide in gold mining”.
In early April this year, people in Sodari in the northern part of North Kordofan took to the streets in protest against the use of cyanide in extracting gold from ore. Fearing for the impact of the highly toxic substance on the environment, in particular the pollution of the water sources in the neighbourhood, they handed a memorandum to the Commissioner of Sodari demanding the removal of the gold cyanidation site in the locality.
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