Tag: GoldTrade
El Obeid Exposes Sudan’s Missing Peace Strategy
El Obeid, the capital of Sudan's North Kordofan state, is home to approximately half a million people, including more than 100,000 displaced by the civil war. It links Darfur, held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to army-controlled central and eastern Sudan, and has faced intensifying RSF pressure in recent…
Wagner Remnants Run Drug Trade in Africa
Roughly 500 fighters from Russia's Wagner Group remain based up the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic, controlling a tramadol trade that lets them exploit the country's gold and forest resources beyond the reach of local law enforcement or Moscow itself, according to The Wall Street Journal. Tramadol, an…
