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> Pope Francis has demanded that foreign powers stop plundering Africa's natural resources for the "Poison of their own greed" after he landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a trip to two African nations.

> The 86-year-old Francis is the first pontiff to visit DR Congo since Pope John Paul II did so in 1985, when the country was still known as Zaire.

> Calling Congo's vast mineral and natural wealth a "Diamond of creation", Francis demanded that foreign interests stop carving up the country for their own interests and acknowledge their role in the economic "Enslavement" of the Congolese people.

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