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Greenpeace Africa is spearheading calls to investigate the vice president and environment minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ève Bazaiba, over her alleged involvement in a series of illegal forest concessions. Controversial plans to end a 19-year moratorium on industrial logging have been on hold since October, when President Felix Tshisekedi ordered an audit of the DRC’s forest concessions along with a suspension of all “questionable contracts,” following complaints of irregularities. Among the contentious contracts are six so-called conservation concessions given to DRC-registered…