‘One broker told me that he buys “conflict gold” from places such as the Central African Republic for around 40 per cent of its global value and then sells it to sanctioned Russians for much more than it’s worth.’
Claire Wilmot on Ethiopia’s gold.
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Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war...
