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UN experts: Gold from Congo going to armed groups, criminals

by Associated Press
| June 19, 2020 1:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say armed groups, criminal networks and some law enforcement agents in Congo are reaping vast sums of money from illegally exploiting gold and other natural resources and smuggling them to Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and the United Arab Emirates.

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