Miners weigh raw gold at a shop Al-Fahir, North Darfur. Exports of the precious metal have become Sudan's lifeline, providing the government with $2.2bn last year. Photograph: Reuters
Sudan's Darfur Gold Rush Brings Death And Displacement To Jebel Amer -- The Guardian
The discovery of the precious metal is pitting Arab tribes against one another and transforming the area's decade-old conflict
With its scrubland, unpaved roads and mud brick huts, the Jebel Amer area in Darfur, western Sudan, can look like a poor and desolate place. Under the ground, though, lies gold.
In the past year or so, the precious metal has begun to alter the nature of the decade-old conflict in Darfur, transforming it from an ethnic and political fight to one that, at least in part, is about precious metal.
Fighting between rival tribes over the Jebel Amer gold mine that stretches for some six miles has killed more than 800 people and displaced 150,000 others since January. Arab tribes, once heavily armed by the government to suppress insurgents, have turned their guns on one another to get their hands on the mines. Rebel groups that oppose the government also want the metal.
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