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Unesco floating farms choke lake in Myanmar
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Read more on Myanmar: https://sc.mp/efrj Myanmar’s second-largest body of water, Inle Lake, is a Unesco biosphere reserve that was once a tourist attraction renowned for its stilt houses and fishermen who use their legs to row their boats. But now, floating farms have become ubiquitous and a major source of income for people living in the…
How Zimbabwe uses gold smuggling to evade sanctions choke
Zimbabwe’s government is using smuggling gangs to sell gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, skirting some of the consequences of tough Western sanctions imposed on the country over human rights abuses, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The smuggling feeds into an enormous money-laundering operation, all facilitated by Fidelity Gold Refinery, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe’s central bank, and enabled, in some cases, directly…