New disaster: 11 dead, 30 injured in Sudan gold mine collapse
A Sudanese government source told Al Jazeera that 11 people were killed and 30 injured in the collapse of an artisanal gold mine in Red Sea state, near the Egyptian border, on Sunday. The accident followed a collapse in Kordofan days earlier that killed about 80 people. A survivor told AFP that pits had begun collapsing on Saturday and that 10 bodies and 21 injured had been recovered by Sunday morning.
Why it matters: This matters for the briefing's theme of commodities, as the collapse highlights the human and economic costs of informal gold extraction in Sudan, a major African producer.