Africa Investigates, Ep. 2: "Fatal Extraction"

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This episode is 22 minutes long.

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This episode was published on December 2, 2015.

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Australian politicians and business leaders have regularly claimed that their country’s reputation in African mining is untarnished. On a new episode of Africa Investigates, host Chris Roper speaks with two journalists behind a transnational report exposing the misconduct of Australian mining companies that led to the deaths of 380 people over the last decade.

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