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Conflict over Kurdistan oil transparency

Political disputes between Erbil and Baghdad have clouded a promising transparency initiative meant to protect Iraq's oil sector from mismanagement and corruption.
Iraq's top oil officials gather at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad on April 3, 2013, for a celebration of Iraq's latest oil transparency report. Attendees included Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani (second left); Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaibi (third left); and Alaa Mohie el-Deen, the head of Iraq's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (center). (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)
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