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Spotlight | DRC
Kinshasa in talks with CNOOC over Dan Gertler's former Lake Albert blocks

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi, 22 September 2022.
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi, 22 September 2022. © Pool Vlad Vanderkelen/Belga Mag/Belga via AFP
The oil blocks on the Congolese side of Lake Albert, long held by Israeli billionaire Gertler, are back on the market. Kinshasa is in confidential talks with the Chinese major CNOOC. [...]
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