Now he has been named finance minister (on 12 April) in Sama Lukonde Kyenge's government, will Felix Tshisekedi's former Ambassador-at-large Nicolas Kazadi have the upper hand on the dispute pitting the Congolese government against Dig Oil? When he advised the former president, Kazadi was always in favour of negotiations with Dig Oil. The South African firm won a case against Kinshasa in 2018, which was ordered to pay $617m in compensation for having unduly withdrawn Block 1 and attributed it to Caprikat and Foxwhelp, which are owned by Dan Gertler, the Israeli businessman who is close to former president Joseph Kabila.
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