A longer version of this article was originally published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Afghanistan’s crags and valleys hold at least a trillion dollars’ worth of minerals, first mapped by Soviet geologists in the 1970s. Local warlords and foreign powers have plundered these deposits ever since. The Taliban and other armed groups … Continue reading Focus on Afghanistan: How the Afghan president helped his brother secure lucrative mining deals with U.S. Contractor
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