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Spotlight AFRICA UNITED STATES Issue dated 24/04/2013

Consultants go to war on Mount Simandou

The largely private investigation ordered by Guinean President Alpha Conde into corruption in the country's mining sector has led to a bitter stand-off between consultants working for the government and those defending the companies that are being probed. It has [...] (521 words)

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