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More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa

President Kabila’s trip to Seoul yields another multibillion-dollar mining deal just as a midway review of China’s US$6 bn. contract is completed

Five years after his first official visit, President Joseph Kabila returned to South Korea on 29-30 March. Two protocols were agreed. The first accord seeks to replicate China’s US$6 billion ore-for-infrastructure Sicomines contract, but on a smaller scale....

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