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ETHIOPIA - GOLD THAT WAS STEEL

By Meron Woldemichael · 4 parts · 11 h 50 min · English

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Ethiopia, 1991 to 2026. In 2008 a consignment of the national bank's gold came back from South Africa as gilded steel. From that vault the book follows the money of a state that owned the land and much of the economy: a military conglomerate given the turbines of the great Nile dam, a customs chief convicted, then freed, famine relief sent to displaced people who did not exist, donated wheat found in sixty-three mills, a smuggler who walked out of a federal courthouse, and prosecutions ended "for lasting public benefit." Covers Kinfe Dagnew and the Metals and Engineering Corporation, Mitiku Kassa and the National Disaster Risk Management Commission, Melaku Fenta and the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority, and Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam and the Libyan smuggling network.

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  1. Part 01

    2:56:40

  2. Part 02

    2:33:27

  3. Part 03

    2:47:18

  4. Part 04

    3:32:26

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