{"id":230045,"date":"2026-04-10T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-call-for-business-world-to-cease-trading-sudans-conflict-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:43:56","slug":"sudan-call-for-business-world-to-cease-trading-sudans-conflict-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-call-for-business-world-to-cease-trading-sudans-conflict-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Call for Business World to Cease Trading Sudan&#8217;s &#8216;Conflict Gold&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Amsterdam \u2014 <em>A recent report by Sudan&#8217;s Centre for Environmental and Social Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/cess-sudan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CESS<\/a>) reveals the continued appearance of conflict-related Sudanese gold in global supply chains, Including in German carmaker Volkswagen&#8217;s 2024 reports*. The field report underlines that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the Sudan Gold Refinery in May 2023, looting about 2.7 tons of gold before completely destroying it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The report calls on all international companies and financial institutions to immediately&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam \u2014 A recent report by Sudan&#8217;s Centre for Environmental and Social Studies (CESS) reveals the continued appearance of conflict-related Sudanese gold in global supply chains, Including in German carmaker Volkswagen&#8217;s 2024 reports*. The field report underlines that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the Sudan Gold Refinery in May 2023, looting about 2.7 tons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":230046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[4338,258,256,6880,7068,2444,4644,257,254,4708,1613,8105,9986,5093],"class_list":["post-230045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-cease","tag-conflict","tag-gold","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-trading","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}