Great find and great post Frank
So much to look forward to with FT and the Govt focused on the right outcomes for all stakeholders
Especially the people of the DRC
Cheers!
Don't look now, but WTF
Kabila and Katumbi, finally the peace of the brave?
Uncontrollable emotion. Drops of tears on faces.
Cries of joy under intense applause Sunday at the cathedral of Lubumbashi when Katumbi and Kabila warmly greeted each other.
Both were machine-gunned by the flashes of the photographers. Even before the end of my mass, the cliché flooded social networks.
The event takes its date with history.
The two enemy ex-brothers are now looking in the same direction.
Far from identity divisions, the interests of the province and the country now guide this new pact.
The entry of Joseph Kabila to this historic mass was eagerly awaited.
After three days of exchanges, unimaginable reunions and fraternal sharing, the Katangese elites were invited on Sunday, May 22, 2022 to commune in the same tune at the great cathedral.
This, after a very busy weekend of asides, friendly memories and mutual repair.
The Katangese have just proved to the face of the world their immense maturity to get along, smoke the pipe of peace, erase and forget resentments and forgive each other forever.
The work of the thousand-year-old church will be a landmark in the hearts of the Katangans of Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga and Lualaba.
For unity so much sought after, the provincial borders have given way to katanganity.
To the omnibulation of this unique celebration of the Katangese soul.
Far from any secessionist illusion, the Katangese have reaffirmed it loud and clear: “You are here because you believe in Katanga.
You are here because you are proud to be Katangese.
You are there because you are convinced that, despite the division of Katanga into four provinces, the Katangan soul is intact", introduced Monsignor Fulgence Muteba Mugalu, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubumbashi and President of the Episcopal Assembly of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lubumbashi, initiator of the Forum.
The presence of Joseph Kabila and Moïse Katumbi reassures the Katangese
Scheduled at the same time as his medical check-up appointment in South Africa, the Katangese reconciliation forum has been extended until this Sunday in order to allow this worthy son of Katanga, Joseph Kabila Kabange to mark his attendance at the meeting.
Arriving in Lubumbashi shortly before one o'clock in the morning, the only former president of the DRC directly confirmed his participation in the reconciliation mass.
In the wee hours of the morning, all of Lubumbashi was in turmoil.
The news of the arrival of "Shina-Rambo" was on everyone's lips. " He arrived ". " He's there ". "He will be at Mass."
In this great expectation, his supporters and fanatics are impatient to show him their love, their solidarity and their fraternity.
Moïse Katumbi was already there.
The leader of Ensemble disrupted his schedule to participate in this forum.
He was there from day one.
Katumbi knows how to be humble when it comes to the higher interests of the country and even of his province.
“The honor always goes to him,” explains a man from his seraglio and then finally came this warm greeting with his brother Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, before probably a tete-a-tete between the two in the copper capital.
Several years later, Joseph and Moses shook hands during Mass. All smiles.
To the glory of all the assistance of the Catholic faithful and participants in the forum.
Kabila and Katumbi have just realized the extent of their siblings' affection for them.
In short, their reconciliation in the cathedral, made the building of the lord vibrate.
Political elites, customary authorities, social leaders and clergy expressed themselves with a burst of joy.
To the point that the whole pretrail was overwhelmed.
The thirst to see Kabila and Katumbi could be read, felt and felt.
Today, the ex-Katanga is experiencing a new start.
The thirst for reconciliation of the two brothers was very noticeable.
In Lubumbashi, Katumbists and Kabilists will rub shoulders again.
Shake hands and brainstorm together.
Since 2023 is already tomorrow.
This event rich in suspense should be used by the two leaders to sharpen their political vision of the next elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Joseph Kabila calls for the application of the resolutions of the forum for the unity and peace of the Katangans
"The most important thing in this ceremony of the unity of Katanga, it is not the resolutions that came out of it, but especially their application, check later if these resolutions will really be applied", declared in Swahili Joseph Kabila, during a dinner offered after the meeting of reconciliation between Katangese, closed this Sunday with a mass celebrated by its initiator, Monsignor Fulgence Muteba, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubumbashi.
Among these resolutions, there is in particular the rapid advent of federalism and the end of hostilities of the Bakata Katanga militia.
The former President of the Republic already reassures that “we are going to apply ourselves to everything that the Church has recommended to us” before appealing “to all the young people here present, more numerous than us old, our future replacements, to follow up on the application of these resolutions".
He also took the opportunity to congratulate "the abbots and the metropolitan archbishop for the organization and holding of this ceremony which falls within the framework of peace and unity of Katangese".
"I'm not tired of you"
This forum, open since Tuesday, May 17, was marked by the presence of several personalities from Greater Katanga, but above all, the handshake between Joseph Kabila, former Head of State and Moïse Katumbi, former governor of the former -Katanga province, which had not been on good terms since their political break in November 2015.
Moïse Katumbi had also spent a few years in exile during the last years of the Kabila regime.
''We spoke to each other and we understood each other. We are truly brothers and sisters called to forgive each other,” said Archbishop Fulgence Muteba.
Who had notably initiated this forum with the aim of '' burying the hatchet between Katangans, ensuring permanent dialogue between Katangans and consolidating cohesion between the 4 provinces "including Haut-Katanga, Lualaba, Haut-Lomami and Tanganyika .
Unprecedented but not insignificant fact, during the big meal, someone launched in the room to the attention of Joseph Kabila, "we are not tired of you yet!"
Joseph Kabila simply replied, "I'm not tired of you either."
A response in the middle of a technical question about its legal possibility of returning to the race for the future presidential election.
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Can't help but wonder what my Brother Franck thinks about this
Not to mention Felix the Cat atm
Food for thought
Frank
and move on with the start up 
IMO
sorry , best let the ASX announcements sort it out bud hence the suspension 
