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‘The Taliban Have Picked Up the Resource Curse’

‘The Taliban Have Picked Up the Resource Curse’

The Taliban are strip-mining their mineral wealth to fund factional power grabs.

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Jul 11, 2022
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July 11, 2022 (Foreign Policy)—For decades, Afghanistan’s people have been told of the vast riches beneath their feet, untapped mineral resources potentially worth billions of dollars that the world …

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