المعادن الإستراتيجية ودورها في الصراعات الإقليمية


MBC presented a lecture on 28/6/2012 on the subject of ‘Strategic minerals and their role in regional conflicts’. The lecture was presented by Dr. Abdel Bagi Al Jeilany, the former minister of mining.

The presenter talked about the different types of minerals and their importance, particularly the strategic ones, to the super powers like the United States, which according to their laws keep a strategic reserve for all the strategic minerals they import, and they make every effort to discover them in other countries.

The lecturer emphasized that in the Sudan we are exploiting a limited resource which has to be managed properly and exploited with consideration for the right of the future generations to this resource. He also talked about other minerals in the Sudan and the gold mining, and the need for community awareness about the risks of mining, in line with the necessity that the state regulates the civilian mining, and making use of experiences of other nations, like China, Ghana and Tanzania.