Hands off Africa! Stop choking Africa, it is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.” Pope Francis in DR Congo as A million celebrate Kinshasa Mass.

By Cecilia Macaulay E K Benj & Aleem Maqbool Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, estimates say. Huge crowds started to gather in Kinshasa well before dawn, including scores of schoolgirls dressed in white who danced along the Pope’s route. A…