Congo-Kinshasa: Trump Declared Peace in Congo. This Is the Reality

Congo-Kinshasa: Trump Declared Peace in Congo. This Is the Reality

New York -- "General" Sultani Makenga stood before thousands of newly trained armed group recruits in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in February and offered them a promise. "You are now part of an army that has risen up to liberate the country and to really liberate the people," declared Makenga, the military leader of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group.

Trump Declared Peace in DR Congo; Reality on the Ground Assessed – Axadle | Stay Informed with Horn of Africa Headlines

In the wake of M23 rebels backed by Rwanda seizing North and South Kivu — the provincial capitals of eastern DR Congo — in early 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump moved to jump-start stalled diplomacy, pitching a “peace for minerals” initiative designed to protect U.S. interests in the region’s resource-laden east. Two accords followed in […]