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Cobalt fails to ward off shareholders' onslaught

Cobalt, which sought to delay proceedings launched by its shareholders to recover their losses caused by the company's actions in Angola, has been rejected by the United States' courts. [...]

Published on 29/08/2017 at 03:30 GMT

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