From Sudan and Sierra Leone to Eritrea, Angola, Congo, Botswana, and postwar Tigray, the struggle over gold and minerals reveals a recurring lesson: resources do not determine political outcomes, but where institutions are weak, extraction often becomes the new arena where power is contested, consolidated, and sustained. The road into Tigray’s gold country passes through landscapes that have not finished absorbing the last war. Craters remain in…
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