Congo opens 52 oil blocks amid flagship green corridor project

Four months after announcing the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor, the DRC government has opened 52 new oil exploration blocks, undercutting its own flagship conservation initiative. The move signals a policy contradiction between environmental commitments and hydrocarbon revenue priorities, raising doubts about the corridor's implementation. The scale of the reserve and the oil blocks' locations remain unspecified, leaving the actual impact uncertain.

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