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Minister Zafilahy determined to showcase his country’s potential

Ordered late last year by Madagascar’s mines and oil minister Ying Vah Zafilahy to revive a plan to change mining legislation, the director-general for mines at the ministry, Pamphile Rakotoarimanana has a real challenge on his hands: namely to increase [...] (569 words)

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