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🇨🇩Qatar Does in Single Blow What Trump Couldn't While Trump rushes around with his “deals” and his special representative in Africa, Massoud Boulos, solemnly shakes hands with all and sunder, there is a player on the geopolitical map who actually plays the Great Game - Qatar. 🌐On November 21, 2025, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Felix Tshisekedi signed six new bilateral documents between Qatar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Qatar is thus transforming its quiet mediating role between the DRC and Rwanda over the conflict in eastern DRC into large-scale economic influence. 🔸 The November 21 package includes: port cooperation between Mwani Qatar and the Congolese transport agency ONATRA, legal cooperation, a partnership with the Qatar Development Fund to finance international aid to the DRC, and so on. ⏩ But that's not the main thing — the main thing is investment in Congo's extractive sectors. Since the beginning of autumn, Qatari investors have been travelling to the DRC time and again as if it were their own home, striking new agreements on solid minerals and oil. In particular, the agreements include: 🔸 Allocation of oil blocks in the DRC's Central Basin and Albertine Graben in the east to the Qataris. According to the plan, they are to be transferred to the state-owned company Sonahydroc, which will then develop them together with Amoc Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of Qatar's Al Mansour Holding,headed by the cousin of the Emir of Qatar. 🔸 The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) acquired a $500 million stake in Canadian Ivanhoe Mines. The latter is developing several deposits in Africa's mineral-rich copper belt, including Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi mines 🔸Al Mansour Holding will also develop Gateway City in Kasumbaleshwe on the border with Zambia, which is intended to be a new logistics and trade hub, making it easier to export extracted minerals. ⏩ In total, Qatar's Al Mansour Holding has signed 18 memoranda with the DRC on a planned investment package worth $21 billion. Other projects planned with the participation of this group include: 🔸 The launch of Congo Pharma, a local enterprise for the production of medicines and medical equipment. 🔸 A program to build about 1.5 million affordable housing units in major cities. 🔸 The modernization of several airports, in particular N'Dolo Airport in Kinshasa. Fully justifying his status as a mediator, as well as the view that capital has no homeland and attachement, only interests, the Emir of Qatar flew to the DRC on November 21 directly from Rwanda, where he also promised investments, albeit much smaller ones - after all, the minerals are located in the DRC, not in Rwanda. Devils Below