I was chatting thru all these permutations with my partner tonight (who is from Botswana - don't let me start on her view of the African male egos we are dealing with - you DO NOT. Want to experience the wrath of an African Queen

). But ....
What if all these meetings with Burindi etc mean that St Nigel will become the next Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the one who manages to broker a peace deal between the DRC, M23, Rwanda and manages to ride off into the sunset with a fully functioning lithium and tin mine in Manono.
Hollywood here we come.....