the badk story of the DRC peace plan

 This is the back story of why the DRC reached out to the US insted of China for a peace deal. 

so why the US and not China? 

Because China didn't keep their promises to help develop the country in exchange for buying developing stealing their valuable resources. 

So here is what SP /Austin Bay wrote a couple months ago:

April 3, 2025

In mid-February, a firm representing a Democratic Republic of the Congo legislator contacted several U.S. officials. The recipients included Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The letter sketched a sub-Saharan version of President Donald Trump's Ukraine minerals peace initiative. Would the U.S. be interested in acquiring or investing in Congo's enormous and globally unique trove of critical and rare mineral resources?

The DRC has gold, copper, cobalt, tin, tantalum (coltan), lithium, gold and diamonds. The uranium for America's World War II atom bombs came from the then-Belgian Congo. Mobile phone and computer manufacturers need coltan (columbite-tantalite). Cobalt is a 21st-century treasure. Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt ore, a must-have for electric vehicles.

Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In 2008 and 2009, China signed the so-called China Deal of 2008 the DRC's Kabila dictatorship.

The overall deal was supposedly worth billions. China was supposed to build roads and other infrastructure. It built ... next to nothing.

Italics mine. 

In 2021, Congo condemned China and began legal proceedings to end Beijing's fraud.

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(by the way China pulled the same trick on Duterte, who thought all the anti China stuff was CIA trying to let the US take over our resources, but he got shafted by China and then stared to make nice with the USA).

Mozambique

strategy page has a long essay about Mozambique, including the ISIS types attacking their natural gas facilities in the north, and the generalized corruption.

July 12, 2025: In the southeast African nation of Mozambique there has been there have been a growing number of violent political demonstrations in the north since late last year. So far, the police have shot dead over 300 violent civilian protestors. The demonstrations have evolved into criminal activity like kidnapping for ransom. The kidnappings are made more painful because over a hundred children have been taken.

they then go on to explain how the Natural gas riches has not made locals rich: No locals were skilled enough to run the places, and the local politicians got rich instead of investing it to help the locals. Hence rebellion, and like in Syria, the best trained and most aggresive rebels were the ISIS trained ones. 

 

one difference between the MSM coverage and SP is that StrategyPage gives the background, in this case the history going back before the Portuguese:

For over a thousand years Mozambique has, like many other parts of East Africa, consisted of coastal cities that prospered by serving as marketplaces where people from the interior could obtain all manner of foreign goods. Mozambique was part of a vast trading network using dependable seasonal winds to allow ships to move goods from East Africa to the Persian Gulf, India and Indonesia.

There is a recent book about how this monsoon trade and India have been ignored in the history books in favor of the more trendy Silk road with China ideas which are more trendy.

The problem now is that those with an education were thrown out with independence. then came civil wars, displacement of populations, death from famines, South African mercenaries, 

A lot of people have left the country, including the educated Portuguese who fled with independence. But what about in recent years? 

A lot of people of course have moved to nearby coutries for jobs in the mines etc.

Grok answer about local countries who have migrants:

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_740e0868-78e1-44c0-ba99-c3d4a907a2b1

short summay of Grok: 

**Migration to South Africa:** - Mozambique has historically been a major source of migrants to South Africa, primarily for work in mining, agriculture, and informal sectors. A 2022 estimate suggests 462,000 Mozambicans were living in South Africa, though this includes pre-2000 migration. ,,,,-

 Historical context: Between 1979 and 1992, 1.7 million Mozambicans fled to neighboring countries, including South Africa, due to civil war, but many returned post-1992. Since 2000, migration has been driven by economic factors rather than conflict. ... 

white house meeting

 

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One background is that USAID members who were fired now say on line openly that they plan to use their expertise in changing goverments to the US to get rid of Trumpieboy.

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Not mentioned: That PEPFAR has had it's aim changed to prevention of HIV: BY pushing safe sex in high schools (read promiscuity) abortion, and gay rights (change laws that protect kids from pedophilia).

Fact sheet here. 

Summary: destigmatizing gay sex, promiscuous sex, and encouraging promiscuity by teaching that if you take these medicines it will keep you from getting pregnant or getting HIV

(and under USAID, PEPFAR was not just giving people with HIV medicine, but pushing anti family/pro promiscuity sex ed in schools and social media, including the gay rights agenda on conservative Catholic and Islamic countries but don't expect that to be reported, since the MSM sees conservative family customs in these countries as something to be destroyed, not encouraged)

Summary of Peace deal

 from WND

Vice President JD Vance praised Trump's role, "If I think about what I know about these two countries, for 30 years, pretty much the entire time that I can remember these two countries being in the news, much of the story has been about them fighting one another, about them killing one another. And now, we can look forward to a future where my children will look at this moment as the beginning of a new story, a story of prosperity and peace."

President Trump welcomed the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Oval Office to sign a historic peace agreement, ending a 30-year conflict.

President Trump welcomed the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Oval Office to sign a historic peace agreement, ending a 30-year conflict.

"Today, the violence & destruction come to an end, & the entire region begins a new chapter of hope." pic.twitter.com/20P2SMBQiR

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 27, 2025