Blood gold, state failure, and the political economy of violence in South Sudan - Radio Tamazuj

Blood gold, state failure, and the political economy of violence in South Sudan - Radio Tamazuj

The massacre at Khor Kaltan is not merely a security lapse. It is an indictment of a state that has abdicated its most basic responsibilities in governing natural resources. The killing of more than 70 artisanal miners in a gold rich zone near Juba lays bare a system defined by institutional fragility, regulatory paralysis, and elite indifference. When Vice President James Wani Igga described the victims as the “backbone of our local economy,” h…