French President Sarkozy has proposed a BOLD new plan! It has merit. He proposes that Congo share its mineral resources with Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda in return for lasting peace.
WOW, effectively there would be no reason to fight!
Sarkozy seeks peace role in Africa
President Nicolas Sarkozy will on Thursday try to carve out a peacemaking role for France in central Africa by urging the Democratic Republic of Congo to consider sharing its vast mineral resources with its neighbours.
Mr Sarkozy will hold talks with Joseph Kabila, the DRC president, in Kinshasa to persuade him to back a controversial plan to put mines in the east of the vast country under some form of supranational authority, with resources shared with neighbouring Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
Paris is keen to press for a long-term solution to battles for the control of natural resources, which have fuelled inter-ethnic conflict and destabilised much of central Africa.
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