The search for gold is a dangerous and laborious gamble for Sudan’s miners

Altayeb Alhadi was orphaned at six after both parents died and left his village of Galli at 14 to work in Sudan’s northern gold-mining areas and support his siblings. After starting in transport and other jobs, he began searching for gold in the surrounding mountains. He was killed on October 10 in an air strike attributed to the Egyptian military on a mining site near Jabal Al-Aigdat in Sudan’s Red Sea region, where at least 72 miners died. A fellow miner said Altayeb suffered severe blast injuries and died within hours.