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Oil, Gas & MiningBriefing
IMF must ensure kleptocratic regime in the Republic of Congo does not get another sweet deal
Despite its huge oil reserves, for the second time in less than a decade, the Republic of Congo is on the verge of bankruptcy. Find out why.
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Oil, Gas & MiningReport
The Riddle of the Sphynx: where has Congo’s oil money gone?
A top oil official in the Republic of Congo (ROC) has been secretly selling hundreds of millions of dollars in cut-price oil to private companies he himself owns
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Oil, Gas & MiningReport
How to lose $4 billion
Credibility test for global transparency standard as £4bn lost to anonymous oil and mining companies.
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Oil, Gas & MiningPress release
Republic of Congo: Is President’s son paying for designer shopping sprees with country’s oil money?
The son of the president of Republic of Congo appears to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that may derive from sales of state oil on lavish designer shopping sprees in Paris, Marbella and Dubai, while Congo remains one of the poorest and most indebted countries in the world.
Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
The Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) is one of the biggest oil producers in sub-Saharan Africa, yet a third of the Congolese people live below the poverty line due to corruption and mismanagement of the oil sector. Read more