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Tshisekedi fixes Gertler and associates in his sights over oil dispute with Angola

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The Congolese president has entrusted his hydrocarbons minister Didier Budimbu with the highly sensitive mission of elucidating the circumstances in which Dan Gertler's firm Nessergy obtained a permit to explore for oil in waters shared by the DRC and Angola back in 2006. A thorny affair which cost Luanda $150m in 2015 to recover the rights from the Israeli businessman.

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