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Angola
Alrosa negotiates exit from Catoca diamond mine

Office of Russian diamond producer Alrosa in Moscow, 27 April 2022. © Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP

The sanctions-hit Russian diamond giant Alrosa wants to pull out of Angola and is in talks with its Angolan homologue, Endiama. [...]

Published on 16/10/2023 at 04:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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