The uranium was Congolese. The war on terror's newest front should be too.
The money moves through three doors. The decisions wait behind one. Every US institution on the Congo, what each controls, and how to position for what comes next.
Chinese operators kept mining cobalt, stopped selling it, and poured everything into copper. Six months on they are richer, more liquid, and holding the tonnes the state gated.
Alert level: Elevated on the constitutional track. The treaty has entered the mandate fight.
An investor can hold a treaty-backed first claim on a Congolese asset and still lose the tonnes it produces. Nothing in either instrument says which claim comes first.
America's new Africa envoy is on his second tour of the continent, and the deal his pitch is built on isn't on the itinerary. The omission isn't a snub. It's the clearest available signal of how Washington is actually using the SPA: as a precedent text, not a relationship that still needs tending.
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