{"id":244644,"date":"2026-09-17T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-gold-mine-collapse-kills-dozens-as-search-for-missing-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:30:08","slug":"sudan-gold-mine-collapse-kills-dozens-as-search-for-missing-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-gold-mine-collapse-kills-dozens-as-search-for-missing-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Gold Mine Collapse Kills Dozens As Search for Missing Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em> At least 60 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in southern Sudan, with many more still missing and feared dead beneath the rubble. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Since fighting erupted in April 2023 between Sudan&#8217;s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20260415-women-victims-of-sudan-s-war-bear-scars-of-indescribable-violence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both sides&#8217; war efforts<\/a> have been largely funded by the country&#8217;s gold trade, worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to Sudanese officials and mining industry sources, nearly all of the gold exported or smuggled from Sudan flows to the United Arab&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609170006.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>At least 60 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in southern Sudan, with many more still missing and feared dead beneath the rubble. Since fighting erupted in April 2023 between Sudan&#8217;s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, both sides&#8217; war efforts have been largely funded by the country&#8217;s gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":244645,"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":[258,256,9952,5106,6709,4644,7500,6947,257,9020,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-244644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collapse","tag-continues","tag-dozens","tag-gold","tag-kills","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-search","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/244644","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=244644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}