Deadly gold mine air strikes highlight Egypt-Sudan border insecurity

An alleged air strike on a gold mining site in northern Sudan has killed at least 72 workers , according to a rights group, highlighting the severe security vacuum along the country’s increasingly lawless border with Egypt. The Khartoum-based rights group Emergency Lawyers accused the Egyptian military of targeting civilian miners in the North Wadi area of Jabal al-Uqaydat, a mountainous border area between Sudan and Egypt. Images allegedly from the site and shared by rights monitors showed chaotic scenes, with bodies wrapped in funeral shrouds. The border region between Sudan and Egypt has a long history of tensions which continue to this day.