Investigation down under

Woodside Petroleum is Mauritania's largest foreign investor by far. It has sunk around US$1 billion into its Chinguetti offshore project, pumping the only oil between the North Sea and the Gulf of Guinea. Since last year's coup, Australia's biggest independent oil company has become a pantomime villain in Mauritania.

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Australia, Zeidane Ould H'Meida

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