Briefing Room 28.02.26
Congolese drone strikes kill M23's spokesman as Kinshasa closes in on the coltan town of Rubaya; plus Madagascar's tilt toward Moscow and China's dual-use export bans on Japan.
Simon Whistler • February 28, 2026
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Welcome back to The Briefing Room, the subscriber-only show for people bored of the regular headlines and excited at the idea of diving into obscure stories that everybody else is missing.
I'm Simon, and this week, what the rest of the world is ignoring is a growing military offensive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a supposed peace is fast unravelling.
Sticking with Africa, there were also signs that Madagascar's new post-coup president is attempting a tricky balancing act between France on the one hand and America and Russia on the other.
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