内容摘要： InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox The investigation also shows how Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is systematically using gold smugglers to get around the chokehold of Western sanctions imposed on the country. The money laundering and gold-smuggling schemes involve one of Zimbabwe’s most influential diplomats, and go all the way up to the president and his circle.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox The investigation also shows how Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is systematically using gold smugglers to get around the chokehold of Western sanctions imposed on the country. The money laundering and gold-smuggling schemes involve one of Zimbabwe’s most influential diplomats, and go all the way up to the president and his circle.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Park said developing a city from scratch is not a short-term project. InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox “But with the relocation of the capital, we can expect some real changes to happen,” he said.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Calling on Israel to stop its campaign of deliberate starvation, UN says its mission to help Gaza is the ‘most obstructed in recent history’. InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox 'Hungriest place on earth': UN says aid mission most obstructed in recent history InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Gaza is the “hungriest place on Earth” and its entire population is at risk of famine, warns the United Nations, as desperate Palestinians are shot at, starved, and forced from their homes by the Israeli forces.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Calling on Israel to stop its campaign of InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox deliberate starvation

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox and allow food into the besieged enclave, the UN on Friday said its mission to help Gaza’s Palestinians is the “most obstructed in recent history”.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox “The aid operation that we have ready to roll is being put in an operational straitjacket that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations, not only in the world today, but in recent history,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spokesperson, Jens Laerke, said. InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Rudland told Al Jazeera that all allegations against him were false and formed part of a smear campaign by an unidentified third party. He described himself as “a strong businessman … competing against the greedy and the envious”. He denied any involvement in the sale of illicit cigarettes, in gold or other smuggling and in sanctions busting.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Gold Leaf Tobacco, Rudland’s company, said that it emphatically denied any involvement, past or present, in money laundering, the trade in illegal gold or related matters. InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe told Al Jazeera that it takes the issues of money laundering and illicit trade very seriously and will not participate, directly or indirectly, in such activities.

 InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Mnangagwa, Macmillan, Angel, Doolan, Rushwaya and other parties featured in this article did not respond to Al Jazeera’s inquiries. InstantInsightTrumphasopenedaPandorasbox Over the course of the coming weeks, the Gold Mafia series will reveal more on these characters, how they work and how they are using one of the world’s most-wanted commodities – gold – to enrich themselves, while impoverishing a nation.