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MAURITANIA - FIFTEEN YEARS FOR A DECADE

By Mariem Mint Jiddou · 4 parts · 10 h 24 min · English

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Mauritania, 1978 to 2026: a desert republic ruled by officers, living on iron, fish and gold. In 2007 cocaine landed at Nouadhibou's airport; within eighteen months of the 2010 convictions, the president had cut traffickers' sentences and an appeal court had acquitted the leading defendant. A Chinese fishing group won twenty-five years of tax breaks. A parliamentary inquiry found public land auctioned near the floor price, contracts awarded without tender and an island offered to Qatar's emir. In 2025 a former president was sentenced to fifteen years for illicit enrichment; two of his prime ministers were acquitted. Covers Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the Errahma foundation, Eric Walter Amegan and the Nouadhibou cocaine trials, Mohamed Ould Bouamatou and the Générale de Banque de Mauritanie, and Poly-Hondone Pelagic Fishery.

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  1. Part 01

    2:49:26

  2. Part 02

    2:12:59

  3. Part 03

    2:29:41

  4. Part 04

    2:51:56

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