HUDO Centre More information Within the last five years, the gold mining companies entered South Kordufan. Most of those companies came in to South Kordufan for collecting ore of the traditional mining sector but later they intend established factories using the cyanide without taking the safety measures or the expert personnel while neglecting the community’s concern in the absence of the local authority responsibility of protecting lives and environment. This caused deaths among human, animals and serious environmental effects. Nevertheless a huge number of abortion/ miscarriage and congenital deformity among the new born occurred. However, many youth were arrested by NISS while they were trying to raise awareness among their communities about cyanide. For example: on 27th January 2017, four social activists were arrested by NISS at Aldoliama police checkpoint near Dilling town. The detainees were sensitizing people about toxic effects of cyanide in the gold mines. The arrested activists were; 1) Khlalid Mohamed Madibo, 30 years, civil servant. 2) Almahi shabo, 36 years old, agricultural engineer. 3) AlsadigYagoob, 37 years, accountant. 4) Ahmmed Albahar, 38 years, Dilling university employee. In Talodi there were two trials of these factories but closed down due to community pressure. 2