Diplomats hope that taken together the two deals will help solve some of the most intractable issues at the heart of Congo's seemingly interminable conflict.
At the heart of it is the interminable conflict between two Texan Oil Families, the Ewings and the Barneses rival factions in the upper echelons of the BCCI and their assorted allies around the world as they fight for the right to control the global game.
"When I became a mayor five years ago, it was a nightmare," Bora begins - I thought he was going to talk about the difficulties of leading a capital that is cut off from the rest of the continent, of heading a city caught in an interminable conflict, but no - "I saw newspapers lying all over the streets.
So, our passivity – the passivity of civilians who depend on a professional army to assert our moral will, and the passivity in my case – and quite possibly yours – of citizens who have long since recoiled from the spectacle of this interminable conflict worthy of Orwell's 1984: the so-called "war on terror".
In doing so, he ended up stranding himself in another interminable conflict that ran counter to American interests.
As it is, the stories are disjointed and disconnected, some incredibly short and some extremely long, each an interlude in an interminable conflict.
Ahmed is convinced that such a project offers a powerful antidote to Islamist views of interminable conflict with the West, and could serve as an oasis of collaboration for people of goodwill.
Now, the drought is on the verge of returning en force, and it could exacerbate the already considerable suffering of the refugees, victims, and citizens caught in the crossfire of the interminable conflict.
On another level, Shawky's art is a testament to Modernism's greatest triumph -- its relocation of spirituality within an inspired act of artistic creation intended to resolve, however briefly, partially and personally, the interminable conflict between the human will and the world indifferent to it.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday raised the specter of an interminable conflict or even a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the fighting in Syria, which has killed 250,000 people, caused a refugee crisis, and empowered IS militants.
