18-10-2025
Abu Wadaha News: Speech of the Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the State of Sudan at the Press Conference
Saturday, 26 Rabi' al-Akhir 1447 AH, corresponding to 18/10/2025 AD
Titled: (The Government's Confusion in How to Control Dealing with Gold and Its Impact on the Value of the Pound)
After the secession of South Sudan in 2011 and Sudan's loss of more than 75% of its oil exports, gold emerged as a primary alternative to compensate for this loss and generate foreign exchange revenue. Mining had spread widely in Sudan after approximately 2008, and Sudan's gold production became significant, reaching 73.8 tons in 2024, ranking fifth in Africa (Al Jazeera Net). However, neither the state nor the people benefited from this large production, as it became a plunder for individuals, foreign and local companies, and even what is produced through artisanal mining is bought and smuggled by some companies and entities. To confirm what we have said in this regard, we review the largest gold mines in Sudan, by way of example only, and how the government deals with these mines!
One of these mines is the Jebel Amer mine, which is located about 100 km north of the city of Al-Fashir, and its production is estimated at about 50 tons per year, according to Reuters, making it the third largest gold mine in Africa. However, the government did not take control of it, but left it as plunder for armed groups, the latest of which was in 2017, when the mine became the property of the Rapid Support Forces and Russian companies such as Wagner.
Although Al-Junaid Company, affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces, announced in 2021 that it had handed over the Jebel Amer mine to the government, on the ground, the mine remained under its control until this day.
The Hassai mine is located in northeastern Sudan, and the Sudanese Ariab Company owns 60% of the mine's share, and La Mancha Resources Company, owned by the Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris, owns 40%.
Block 14 mine is located near the Egyptian border in northern Sudan, and is called the Miyas Sand Project. The Australian company Perseus Swiss owns 70%, the Sudanese government 20%, and 10% for a local Sudanese company called Miyas.
In a report published by Al Jazeera Net, the gold from the Jebel Amer mine and more than 10 other mines in South Darfur is smuggled to Chad, and papers are extracted for it as Chadian gold and then exported to the Emirates. The process of smuggling gold from Sudan is a process in which influential figures in the government have been involved since the era of the Salvation Government, where it was smuggled through Khartoum Airport and through Sudanese ports. There are also companies affiliated with the army and others affiliated with the intelligence service working in gold exploration, and the revenues of these companies do not enter the state treasury.
After the outbreak of the war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces; this war that destroyed most of the economic and other infrastructure, as exports, which used to supply the treasury with what is called foreign currency (the dollar), stopped, the local currency, the Sudanese pound, began to erode and collapse against the US dollar and other foreign currencies, which was reflected in people's lives, which in the first place have become unbearable because of the war, so poverty and deprivation increased, and disease and hunger spread.
In an attempt to stop this deterioration, a meeting of the Economic Emergency Committee was held, chaired by Prime Minister Kamel Idris, on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, and the committee issued decisions to regulate economic performance, according to the Sudan News Agency. Among the most important of these decisions are:
1- Classifying the possession or storage of gold without documents as a smuggling crime.
2- Monitoring exports to avoid gold smuggling.
3- Limiting the purchase and marketing of gold to a government agency.
And other decisions, and although they emphasized limiting the purchase and marketing of gold from a government agency, they violated this decision. There was a meeting in which the dismissed Governor of the Bank of Sudan, Burai Al-Siddiq, insisted that the Central Bank of Sudan be the only entity that exports gold. A sharp disagreement had erupted in this official meeting, which was held in the Ministry Complex in Port Sudan on 12/10/2025, where Governor Burai adhered to the decision of exclusive gold export through the Central Bank, while representatives of the gold exporting companies insisted on their right to export directly without the mediation of the Central Bank, and Minister of Finance Jibril Ibrahim supported the position of the companies, so the Governor left the meeting angrily, which was the reason for his dismissal the next day, where Al-Burhan issued a decision ordering his dismissal, and the appointment of Amina Mirghani; the first woman to hold this position in Sudan. Meanwhile, the root of the problem in the government's dealings with gold remains:
a- Placing large gold mines in the hands of companies and individuals, instead of the state taking over them, which deprives the country of much of its wealth and goes into the hands of a few.
b- Inability to control the extracted gold and know its quantities.
c- Conflicting policies towards extracted gold, in terms of determining the purchase price, the purchasing party, and monopoly, which led to the spread of the phenomenon of smuggling abroad and to neighboring countries (Egypt, the Emirates, and Chad).
d- Failure to benefit from artisanal mining that is being smuggled, knowing that about 70% of the announced amount of gold produced is from artisanal mining, which reveals the extent of smuggling that is taking place in gold.
Because the issue of gold is closely linked to the currency, the problem of the erosion of the value of the Sudanese pound can be summarized in several reasons, the most important of which are:
1- The Sudanese pound is based on the dollar instead of gold and silver.
2- Printing paper money without cover of gold, or goods, which raises the rate of inflation that causes the erosion of the value of the pound.
3- Weak exports due to smuggling and political instability, despite the fact that Sudan possesses agricultural, animal, and huge mineral wealth, which would have been enough to make it one of the richest countries in the world.
4- Dependence on imports in many needs such as wheat, medicines, petroleum materials, and others, and this requires dollars, which makes the demand for the dollar high and weakens the pound. People have lost confidence in the pound, which has been eroding daily, so people, especially merchants, prefer to keep dollars or gold as a way to preserve the value of their savings, which raises the price of the dollar and reduces the value of the local currency.
This is the reality regarding the government's dealings with gold, as well as with the local currency; the pound, and through this dealing, confusion and a lack of clarity in how to address it appear.
We in Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah of Sudan, out of our responsibility towards our nation, provide radical solutions with regard to this issue, based on Islamic doctrine, so we say:
Firstly: Gold, especially mines that do not stop producing; such as the mines that we mentioned when we talked about gold mines in Sudan, are considered public property, meaning that it is not permissible to own them to companies or individuals, but rather they are the right of the entire nation, and the state's task is to supervise exploration and marketing, and that its proceeds are either in public projects for all people, or that the funds are distributed to them, and the state has no right, that is, it is not permissible for the state to deal with public property by allocating it to individuals and companies, neither by gift nor by connection, nor otherwise, as al-Tirmidhi narrated from the path of Abyad bin Hamal «that he came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him to grant him the salt mine, so he granted it to him, and when he turned away a man from the council said: Do you know what you have granted him? You have only granted him the abundant water. He said: So he took it back from him.» The abundant water is that which does not stop, meaning you have granted him a mine that does not stop, because salt is a mineral like the abundant water that does not stop, so it is not the right of the government to own any part of the gold to companies, and it must agree with the companies on specific amounts by which the companies extract gold for the public good and not for the companies. And the companies have no right to the extracted gold, and thus it is guaranteed that all the gold becomes in the hands of the state, which disposes of it for the benefit of the nation.
Secondly: The origin of the state's money is to be from gold and silver, as the Prophet ﷺ approved the Roman dinar and the Persian dirham as currency for the Islamic state with a known weight, until the Islamic dinar was minted with a weight of 4.25 grams, and the dirham with a weight of 2.975 grams of silver, until the dollar dominated after the decision of US President Nixon to cancel the dollar's link to gold, after the dollar became the currency on which almost the entire world is based. Article 167 of the draft constitution of the Khilafah state prepared by Hizb ut-Tahrir states the following:
(The state's money is gold and silver, whether minted or not. It is not permissible to have currency other than them. The state may issue something else instead of gold and silver on condition that it has in the state treasury an amount of gold and silver equal to it. The state may issue copper, bronze, paper or other things and mint it in its name as currency if it has an equivalent of gold and silver).
Why did we specify gold and silver as the basis? This is because Islam linked gold and silver with fixed rulings that do not change; such as the diya; 1000 gold dinars, and the amount of cutting off the hand in the hadd theft except in a quarter of a dinar or more, and other rulings that the Sharia linked to gold and silver, as Islam made zakat on money in gold and silver, but all financial transactions that came in Islam are on gold and silver.
Thirdly: Sudan is the country of gold, and when it makes the basis of its currency gold, its currency will be the strongest currency of value, because it has an intrinsic value that is not affected by anything else, and its value remains constant, perhaps it decreases slightly or increases slightly, but it will never be like what is happening now to the local Sudanese currency from erosion, if it benefited from the wasted gold revenues, by implementing the Sharia ruling in dealing with gold, the Prophet ﷺ said: "... and in the rikaz is one-fifth"; that is, the state takes all the abundant mines that do not stop, as it has the right to (one-fifth) of what is produced by individuals.
Fourthly: The one who applies these radical solutions is a principled, self-reliant state, and not a functional state as our country is today; subordinate to the infidel colonizer, who seeks to plunder wealth, impoverish people, and work to tear apart its unity to weaken it!! Here is America, which separated South Sudan so that Sudan would not benefit from oil, now seeking to peel off Darfur, which is rich in gold and precious minerals.
O people of Sudan: There is no salvation for you except by working hard with Hizb ut-Tahrir to establish the righteous Khilafah state on the method of Prophethood, which pleases your Lord, restores your glory, and you live under its shade enjoying the blessings that God has bestowed on our country.
May the peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir
in the State of Sudan
Source: Abu Wadaha News
