金融新闻:OilBringsRevenue,ProblemstoAfrica
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Africa s share of the world s lucrative oil market is big and growing bigger. But for many people in Africa s oil-producing countries, increased oil output has only brought continued poverty and more violence. Kent Klein reports from Washington on the so-called "oil curse."
Africa is home to 10 percent of the world s oil reserves, and wells in Africa and off its shores produce an estimated six million barrels of oil a day.
The world s biggest oil-consuming nation, the United States, gets between 10 and 20 percent of its oil imports from West Africa, and that percentage is growing. Angola is already the biggest supplier of crude oil to China, the world s second-largest and fastest-growing oil buyer.
Angola recently surpassed Nigeria as Africa s largest oil-producing country, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sudan, Congo-Brazzaville and other countries have growing oil industries.
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