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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi is expected in China this Wednesday for a five-day state visit, which will include a meeting with President Xi Jinping. China is the DR Congo's top trading partner and a major mining investor. Top of the agenda will be the renegotiation of a "resources-for-infrastructure" deal struck in 2008, which Tshisekedi believes is unfair. Also on the show: Australia looks to increase its trade ties with India in order to reduce reliance on China.
Pope Francis on Friday left the Democratic Republic of Congo for a three-day visit to South Sudan to promote peace and reconciliation in the world's youngest country, riven by the scars of civil war and extreme poverty.
Pope Francis condemns what he terms "economic colonialism" in Africa, on a visit to mineral-rich DR Congo. "Hands off Africa... It is not a mine to be stripped nor a terrain to be plundered," the pontiff says, to applause, in an address at the presidential palace in the country's capital Kinshasa.
In tonight's edition: The pope denounces the poison of greed driving conflicts and exploitation of the African continent. That message goes down well with the tens of thousands cheering his arrival in DR Congo. Also, Liberian President George Weah rejects criticism that he's out of touch and sets his sights on a second mandate in October's election. Finally, a deadline for Nigerians to deposit old currency is extended, but the swap to new denominations and push for more cashless transactions causes frustration and long queues at banks.
Pope Francis is on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The last time a Pontiff visited the DRC was back 1985, when the country was still known as Zaire. Vedika Bahl and Kevin Baptista tell us more.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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