SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Communist Party of Sudan: Govt must take control of Jebel Amer gold mines

13/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Communist Party of Sudan: Govt must take control of Jebel Amer gold mines

 Radio Dabanga reports that the Communist Party of Sudan has demanded the government take control of the Jebel Amer gold mines in North Darfur. The party asserts that the gold “is currently outside the control of the government’.

 At a press conference in Khartoum, party leader and economist Dr Sidgi Kaballo questioned who owns Jebel Amer, saying that gold production in the area reaches a tonne per day, but the gold goes directly to the markets of Dubai and France.

 Kaballo also criticised the Sudanese finance ministry’s plans to spend $5 billion to prevent an economic collapse, saying that “regulation of the gold and oil sectors will save that amount and more.”

 He also labelled the Islamic banking system as the “largest financier of corruption,” and criticised the Forces of Freedom and Change’s economic programme, warning that plans to import rather than plant wheat “will turn the country into drought.”