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$8.76 billion arbitration: Sundance opens a second iron ore battlefront against Brazzaville

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Brazzaville facing hefty arbitration over withdrawn iron ore permits

President Denis Sassou Nguesso's decision to withdraw several iron ore mining permits in late 2020 has thrust arbitration proceedings on the heavily-indebted country involving at least $40bn. All of the plaintiffs - Australia's Sundance Resources and Equatorial Resources, Saint Kitts and Nevis-based Avima Iron Ore and Britain's Midus Holdings - are being assisted by law firm Clifford Chance. The case underscores Congo's relations with China, the source of capital for the buyer of three of the withdrawn iron ore permits: Sangha Mining Development. [...]

Its subsidiary Congo Iron initiated arbitration against Congo in March over its unilateral withdrawal from its Nabeba iron project, and in late June the parent company Australian Sundance followed suit and has requested that the two actions be judged together. [...] (454 words)

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