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SPA Brief · 17 Aug 2026

The Congolese People Have Made the Choice. Kinshasa’s Hedge Now Has a Paper Trail.

What Kinshasa signed, said and left unsigned this year turns a diplomatic posture into a documented record. What that record leaves exposed, and for whom.

The Congolese People Have Made the Choice. Kinshasa’s Hedge Now Has a Paper Trail.

Two months after 56 percent of Congolese conditionally endorsed the American bargain, the treaty they priced sits adopted, unpromulgated, and overtaken on both sides of the rivalry.

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