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An Occidental Petroleum Corp. unit will look to vacate a $392 million arbitral award issued to Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. due to an ongoing relationship between its lead counsel and Occidental's appointed arbitrator, who both allegedly hid a separate arbitration where they served as arbitrators.

Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall’s new book, Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC, is a comedic map of “dodgy dealings” in South Africa from when the country’s history was first written down. In a Daily Maverick webinar hosted by journalist Marianne Thamm on Thursday, the authors discussed their book and its characters, and pondered if corruption in South Africa will ever come to an end.   Extensively researched by its write...