The Afghan valleys contain minerals worth at least one trillion dollars, first mapped by Soviet geologists in the 1970s. Since then, warlords and foreign powers have continued to plunder these deposits.
The Taliban and other armed groups clash to control the mines, which they use to finance their activities.
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Even former US President Donald Trump coveted Afghanistan's gold, lithium, uranium and other mineral wealth ... To the point that in 2017, in order to persuade him to keep US troops in the country, the president Ashraf Ghani had promised to award mining contracts to American companies.
These troops then remained in Afghanistan (although since then, under an agreement reached with the Taliban, they withdrew entirely from the country) ... And Ashraf Ghani kept his promises.
At the end of 2019, SOS International (SOSi), a company with tenuous links with the army and
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