The Democratic Republic of the Congo, gripped by a rebellion in its eastern part, “should not be spoils of war,” launched French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday in Kinshasa.
“Neither looting, nor Balkanization, nor war,” he insisted, before adding that he had seen “clear support” from all the actors in the conflict for a ceasefire “next Tuesday.”
The French president arrived on Friday night in the capital of the largest French-speaking country in the world, a bustling megalopolis of some fifteen million inhabitants as famous for “sape” and rumba as for its jams.
This Saturday morning he met his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi at the “Palais de la Nation”, in the district of official buildings and embassies, for an interview followed by a joint press conference.
Source: BFM TV
