As a new gold rush takes over the world, driving up the price of gold to historic levels, the UAE has strategically turned itself into a global hub for gold, and gold laundering.

And it's done this partly through financing civil war in Africa, and in particular, Sudan, where a brutal all our war has waged for two years between the country’s military and a rogue mercenary army that’s figured out how to exchange gold for weapons.

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