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Gold in Africa: Mali
Gold production in Mali came to 61.2 metric tons (MT) in 2018, up from 49.6 MT in 2017. This made the country Africa's third-largest gold producer after South Africa and Ghana
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To protect its oil interests in the region...
To find and remove Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destructions"
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I would imagine that they where angry even tho I have no idea what message they got