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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks a harsh mining code

Catching many by surprise, Ivory Coast’s cabinet moved on Dec. 2 to adopt a new mining code. True, Abidjan planned to stitch the code together before the end of the year in order to table it before Parliament in 2014. [...]

Published on 03/12/2013 at 23:02 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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