While the world looks away, Sudan is facing a g3n-oc/ide at the hands of the RSF and at the same time, systems of exploitation continue to profit from the country’s suffering. Across Sudan and South Sudan, gold mining has become a major source of income, but it comes at a devastating human cost. Workers, many of them children are forced into informal, unregulated mines with almost no protection. Tunnels collapse. Toxic fumes suffocate. Extreme conditions make survival uncertain every single time. But this crisis is not separate from the violence and it is connected to it. The gold trade has been repeatedly linked to funding armed groups, including networks tied to the RSF, helping sustain the very atrocities unfolding today. Sudan produces tens of tons of gold each year, placing it among Africa’s top producers. Yet much of this wealth is built on exploitation, conflict, and silence. Behind the shine is a system feeding both profit and genocide and the world continues to ignore it.