{"id":45637,"date":"2026-09-16T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45637"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:12:57","slug":"sixty-people-killed-in-gold-mine-collapse-in-sudans-west-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sixty-people-killed-in-gold-mine-collapse-in-sudans-west-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty people\u00a0killed in gold mine collapse in Sudan&#8217;s West Kordofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">At least 60 people were \u200bkilled in a gold mine \u200ccollapse on Sunday in a remote area north of the town \u200bof al-Nuhud in Sudan&#8217;s \u200bWest Kordofan, three local sources told \u2060<i>Reuters<\/i> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sudan is\u00a0\u200bone of Africa&#8217;s largest gold producers,\u00a0\u200bbut the vast majority of its gold is produced through dangerous artisan\u00a0\u200bmining techniques and later smuggled\u00a0\u200bout of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The local sources said \u200cthe \u2060high death toll at the remote site was due to the lack of safety procedures \u200bor \u200brescue equipment \u2060at the makeshift wells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">West Kordofan is under \u200bthe control of the \u200bparamilitary \u2060Rapid Support Forces, for whom gold mining is a key \u2060source \u200bof revenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22123,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45637","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"At least 60 people were \u200bkilled in a gold mine \u200ccollapse in Sudan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45639,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45637\/revisions\/45639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}