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Spotlight | Uganda
Museveni sets up yet another elite unit to fight gold smuggling

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Gold nuggets before the refining process at AGR (African Gold Refinery) in Entebbe, Uganda.
Gold nuggets before the refining process at AGR (African Gold Refinery) in Entebbe, Uganda. © Reuters/Baz Ratner

President Museveni recently set up a new unit to try to stamp out gold smuggling. His aim is to get Uganda out of the economic doldrums by convincing new operators to come into the country's gold mines.

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