{"id":247170,"date":"2026-10-15T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-gold-miners-on-sudan-egypt-border\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:30:18","slug":"sudan-air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-gold-miners-on-sudan-egypt-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-gold-miners-on-sudan-egypt-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Air Strikes Kill Dozens of Gold Miners on Sudan-Egypt Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>A Sudan-based rights group said 72 people were killed in a remote, disputed area known for illegal gold mining.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">At least 72 workers were killed in air strikes on a disputed border area between <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/sudan\/t-66203500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>\u00a0 and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/egypt\/t-18332328\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egypt<\/a> that targeted artisanal <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gold\/t-75771877\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold<\/a> miners, a human rights group said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The attack, south of the remote Halayeb triangle, east of the River Nile, is the second of its kind this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">It comes amid growing concern in Egypt over large-scale displacement from the three-and-a-half-year conflict&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120126.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudan-based rights group said 72 people were killed in a remote, disputed area known for illegal gold mining. At least 72 workers were killed in air strikes on a disputed border area between Sudan\u00a0 and Egypt that targeted artisanal gold miners, a human rights group said Sunday. The attack, south of the remote Halayeb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690576:93e40a60e90914e5586a9526c3aa1536:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7832,1900,6709,415,4644,4266,13332,257,254,3292,4708,16174],"class_list":["post-247170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-border","tag-dozens","tag-egypt-news","tag-gold","tag-kill","tag-miners","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-sudan","tag-sudanegypt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690576:93e40a60e90914e5586a9526c3aa1536:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247170","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=247170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}