Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA No win, no gain 1st December 2006 The military regime gets the election result it wanted, with no party strong enough to govern There was no winner in the parliamentary elections on 19 November, the first since Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall's coup of 3 August 2005 (AC Vol 45 No...
Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA Investigation down under 1st December 2006 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...
