Sudan: More Ways to Beat up Unemployment

16 January 2017
opinion

Khartoum — When Mohamed al-Amin al-Tijani graduated from the al-Nilain University's Faculty of Petroleum and Mining, he did not waste much time looking for a government job for he was well aware about the long queues of university graduates waiting for such employment. He immediately proceeded to traditional gold mining areas, where he kept working for three years.

Deeply involved in this laborious and hazardous occupation, Tijani was appalled that many miners die or fall ill when wells cave in or due to the use of mercury in gold refining. Seeing such hazards; Tijani kept thinking on ways for exploiting his university studies to help his fellow miners, his countrymen and humanity at large escape such perils. Consequently, he managed to invent a machine for the extraction of gold away from the use of mercury. His invention won him the Arab Award for Excellence and Innovation, organized in Abu Dhabi in 2016, topping all the other 143 contenders.

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