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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Issue dated 07/11/2017

Guy Maurice (Total) in tough deal with Gabriel Obiang

The Africa Oil Week, organised in Cape Town in late October by ITE Group, gave Total's leaders an opening to [...] (275 words)

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