{"id":243209,"date":"2026-09-04T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-lead-gold-producer-and-the-uae\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:01:59","slug":"sudans-lead-gold-producer-and-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-lead-gold-producer-and-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Lead Gold Producer and the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This report is a revisied version that replaces the original story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">3 September 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"106\">Gold has been the primary currency used to finance the ongoing devastating war in Sudan, and nearly all gold is sold via the United Arab Emirates, a country the army has accused of funding their enemy, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Alliance Mining and Kush for Exploration and Production Company, based in the Sudanese army-controlled area bordering the Red Sea and River Nile states, has routinely been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>This report is a revisied version that replaces the original story. 3 September 2026 Gold has been the primary currency used to finance the ongoing devastating war in Sudan, and nearly all gold is sold via the United Arab Emirates, a country the army has accused of funding their enemy, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243210,"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":[258,256,4644,7358,257,23900,254,1613,8105,3779],"class_list":["post-243209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gold","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-producer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-uae"],"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\/243209","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=243209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}