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Businessman Saifee Durbar sets sights on oil in spite of doubtful credentials

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Having returned to the Central African Republic to work in the mining sector, the Indo-Pakistani businessman has expressed an interest in blocks 1 and 2 at Lake Albert. It's a move that has left the Congolese authorities wary.

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