The Gold Rush Behind a Civil War

内战背后的淘金热

The Daily

2025-11-10

27 分钟
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Twenty years ago, a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region of Sudan shocked the world. Now, videos and images of new atrocities have captured global attention once more. Declan Walsh, who has been covering Sudan, discusses one of the worst humanitarian conflicts in decades, and how gold is fueling it. Guest: Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The New York Times. Background reading:  From December: The gold rush at the heart of a civil war.News Analysis: The world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop a new struggle on an old battlefield as atrocities sweep villages and towns.Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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  • What we're about to talk about next might be the most undercover story of human misery on planet Earth.

  • 20 years ago, a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region of Sudan shocked the world.

  • Now, videos and images of new atrocities have captured global attention once more.

  • About 150,000 people have been killed.

  • Some 12 million displaced, half of them children.

  • As another bloody conflict has returned to the region.

  • This week, the people of Al-Fasher, beaten and threatened,

  • fled for their lives from a murderous militia that films itself unleashing ferocious violence.

  • Today, my colleague Declan Walsh on what has become the worst humanitarian conflict in decades,

  • and the precious metal that is fueling it.