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DRC gold worth billions being smuggled out, says UN

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 15, 2020 | 4:31 am Intelligence Africa Gold 

At least 1.1 tonnes of gold mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo was smuggled last year into countries along the eastern border, costing the impoverished nation's millions of dollars in tax revenue and funding conflict and criminal networks, a...

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