Agence France-Presse: Environmental campaigners WWF and oil exploration firm Soco International announced on Wednesday that the British firm had agreed to halt its hunt for oil in part of Africa's oldest national park.
In a joint statement, they said the WWF had in turn pledged not to pursue a complaint against Soco which it had filed with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The two sides have locked horns over plans to tap oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga park, home to 3,000...