Nestled among the cocoa plantations of western Ivory Coast is a gold mine that does not feature on any official maps. It is not run by an industrial mining company, nor does it pay taxes to the central government. The unlicensed mine is a key part of a lucrative business empire headed by the deputy commander of the West African nation's elite Republican Guard, United Nations investigators allege. Here: A gold prospector sits and eats close to a soldier at a gold mine near the village of Gamina, in western Ivory Coast, March 18, 2015. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)

A walruses at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany on July, 7, 2015. (Photo by Werner Struss/Startraks action)

The Arizona Cardinals cheerleaders perform during the second half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Saturday, December 25, 2021, in Glendale, Ariz. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)

The UK Love Island alum Georgia Steel posed on the beach in Mexico last decade of January 2022. The reality star, 24, was spotted going topless which just a pair of coconuts to cover her boobs. (Photo by The Mega Agency)

A male green anole lizard flares his throat fan in a backyard in Cary, North Carolina on April 27, 2021. This pink section is actually a thin flap of skin that hangs down below the green anole's throat. Anoles are renowned for their displays in which they do pushups, bob their heads up and down, and unfurl their colorful dewlaps. The male anole uses it for two primary purposes: to protect his territory and attract a mate. (Photo by Bob Karp/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)

American model and actress of Brazilian descent Barbara Linhares Ferreira is euphoric in white in the second decade of June 2022. (Photo by barbieferreira/Instagam)

A woman dressed in Ukrainian national costume poses for a photograph in front destroyed Russian military equipment at Khreshchatyk street in Kyiv on August 20, 2022, that has been turned into an open-air military museum ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)

Revellers partied the night away in Leeds, UK on September 5, 2020. Leeds has been added to Public Health England's coronavirus "watchlist" and could be hit with lockdown measures after a rise in coronavirus cases in the city. (Photo by NB Press LTD/The Sun)