Fresh sanctions have been placed on the Sudanese gold trade by the European Union (EU), as a result of the North-Eastern African country’s ongoing conflict.
The new prohibitions were approved on Monday by ministers within the European body, as Sudan marks four years into its brutal civil war.
These sanctions, as seen on Bloomberg, include an import ban on the country’s gold, a ban on selling cyanide and mercury to the war-torn nation, as well as tighter restrictions on selling Sudanese gold within EU states.
These measures represent part of the European Union's initiatives to restrict commercial entities that potentially sustain Sudan's internal conflict, which has persisted since 2023.
This move constitutes the bloc's first new punitive measures applied to this often overlooked conflict in several months.
