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 10/18/2025 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 earnings. Mining had spread widely in Sudan after approximately 2008, and Sudan's gold production became substantial, reaching 73.8 tons in 2024, ranking fifth in Africa (Al Jazeera Net). However, the state and the people did not benefit from this large production, as it became plundered by individuals, foreign and local companies, and even what is produced through artisanal mining is purchased and smuggled by some companies and entities. To confirm what we said in this regard, we review the largest gold mines in Sudan, by way of example, not limitation, 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 El Fasher, 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 rather left it to be plundered by 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 Hisai mine is located in northeastern Sudan, and the Ariab Sudanese 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 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, as 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 that work in gold exploration, and the proceeds 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 the exports that were supplying 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 the lives of the people, which in the first place became 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 control economic performance, according to the Sudan News Agency, and the most important of these decisions:
1- Classifying 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 entity.
And other decisions, and although they emphasized limiting the purchase and marketing of gold to a government entity, 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. There was a sharp disagreement in this official meeting, which was held in the Ministries Complex in Port Sudan on 10/12/2025, where Governor Burai adhered to the decision to exclusively export gold through the Central Bank, while representatives of the gold exporting companies insisted on their right to export directly without the Central Bank's mediation, and the Minister of Finance, Jibril Ibrahim, supported the companies' position, so the Governor left the meeting angrily, which was the reason for his dismissal the next day, as Al-Burhan issued a decision to relieve him of his position and appoint Amna Mirghani; the first woman to hold this position in Sudan. While the root of the problem in the government's dealing with gold remains:
A- Placing large gold mines in the hands of companies and individuals, instead of the state taking over them, which causes the country to lose many of its wealth and goes into the hands of a few.
B- Inability to control the extracted gold and know its quantities.
C- Conflicts in policies towards the extracted gold, in terms of determining the purchase price, the purchasing entity, and monopoly, which led to the spread of the phenomenon of smuggling abroad and to neighboring countries (Egypt, the Emirates, and Chad).
D- Not benefiting from artisanal mining that is being smuggled, knowing that about 70% of the declared quantity of gold produced is from artisanal mining, which reveals the extent of smuggling that takes 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 banknotes without coverage from gold, or from goods, which raises the inflation rate that causes the value of the pound to erode.
3- Weak exports due to smuggling and political instability, despite the fact that Sudan possesses a large agricultural, livestock, and mineral wealth that would have been sufficient to make it one of the richest countries in the world.
4- Reliance on imports in many needs such as wheat, medicines, petroleum products, etc., and this requires dollars, which makes the demand for the dollar high and weakens the pound. People lost confidence in the pound, which continued to erode daily, so people, especially traders, preferred to keep the dollar or gold as a means of preserving the value of their savings, which raises the price of the dollar and lowers 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 lack of clarity in the vision of how to address it is revealed.
We in Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah of Sudan, and from our responsibility towards our nation, present radical solutions regarding this issue, based on Islamic doctrine, so we say:
First: Gold, especially mines whose production does not stop; 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 for them to be owned by companies or individuals, but rather they are the right of the nation as a whole. The state's task is to supervise exploration and marketing, and that its revenues are either in public projects for all people, or that the money is distributed to them. The state has no right, i.e., it is not permissible for the state to deal with public property by allocating it to individuals and companies, neither by donation nor by connection, nor by anything else. Al-Tirmidhi narrated from the path of Abyad bin Hammal that «he came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him to allocate salt to him, so he allocated it to him, and when he turned away, a man from the assembly said: Do you know what you have allocated to him? You have only allocated the inexhaustible water to him. He said: So he took it back from him.» Inexhaustible water is that which does not stop, meaning that he allocated to him a mine that does not stop, because salt is a mineral like the inexhaustible water that does not stop, so it is not the government's right 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 interest and not for the companies. 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.
Second: The origin of the state's money is that it should be from gold and silver. 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 US President Nixon's decision 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 Caliphate state prepared by Hizb ut-Tahrir stated the following:
(The state's money is gold and silver, whether minted or not. It is not permissible for it to have currency other than them. The state may issue something other than gold and silver, provided that it has in the state treasury what is equal to it in gold and silver. The state may issue copper, bronze, paper, or anything else and mint it in its name as currency for it if it has a counterpart equal to it in gold and silver).
Why did we specify gold and silver as the basis? This is because Islam linked gold and silver to fixed rulings that do not change, such as the blood money; 1000 gold dinars, and the amount of cutting off the hand in the prescribed theft is 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. Rather, all financial transactions that came in Islam are on gold and silver.
Third: Sudan is the land of gold, and when it makes the basis of its currency gold, its currency will be the strongest currency with value, because it has an intrinsic value that is not affected by anything else, and its value remains stable, perhaps it decreases a little or increases a little, but it will never be like what is happening now to the local Sudanese currency of 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 deposit is a fifth»; that is, the state takes all the mines that do not stop, as it has the right to (one-fifth) of what is produced by individuals.
Fourth: The one who implements these radical solutions is a principled, self-reliant state, not a functional state as our country is today; subordinate to the disbelieving 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 carve out 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 Caliphate state on the method of Prophethood, which pleases your Lord, restores your glory, and in whose shade you live, 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
