Cash-strapped Lebanon finds itself sitting on a gold mine, as precious metal prices surge

BOURJ HAMMOUD(RAHNUMA): Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at gold as a way to protect their battered assets. Lebanon’s economy hobbled into 2026 with ongoing inflation […]
Sudan gold mine collapse kills 13 miners

KHARTOUM(RAHNUMA): A partial collapse of a gold mine has killed 13 miners and wounded six others in southern Sudan, the state mining company said on Wednesday. The collapse occurred in “five abandoned shafts” of the Umm Fakroun mine in South Kordofan state last Friday, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company (SMRC) said in a statement. Since […]