US EditionRwanda, DR Congo Sign Trump-backed Peace Deal
The agreement aims to end decades of violence in eastern Congo and establish economic ties focused on critical minerals, with U.S. companies poised to invest in the region, officials said.
- On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted Rwanda's Paul Kagame and DRC's Félix Tshisekedi in Washington to sign a peace and economic agreement at USIP.
- After months of U.S. and Qatar-led mediation, mediators in Doha secured frameworks that shaped the Washington agreement, building on prior White House ministerial talks earlier this year.
- It ties security commitments to economic deals, including U.S. access to critical minerals and Rwanda ending support for M23, the FDLR, and other armed groups.
- Despite the signing, a United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report showed at least 319 civilians were killed in North Kivu in July, with continued clashes in South Kivu and displacement in Luvungi.
- With implementation uncertain, observers said the ceremony is largely symbolic as security conditions must be met before projects proceed, advancing U.S. aims to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals.
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At Now-Empty Institute Bearing His Name, Trump Oversees Peace Agreement Between African Rivals
At the heart of the pact between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are separate deals to provide American companies access to rare earths and other minerals.
Donald Trump presided on Thursday in Washington, D.C., over a signing ceremony of a peace agreement with his Congolese and Rwandan counterparts, speaking of a "miracle" even though intense fighting is taking place in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Trump has enforced a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Congo. What has changed with the agreement: the US is now in the front row in the plunder. Peace is not in sight at the moment.
Congo fighting flares within hours of Trump’s peace deal ceremony
Fighting raged in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, a day after US President Donald Trump hosted Congolese and Rwandan leaders in Washington to sign new deals aimed at ending years of conflict in a region rich in minerals.
Rwanda and the DR Congo have signed a peace agreement mediated by the US President in Washington. While Donald Trump speaks of a "miracle", his two African colleagues remain reserved.
Why must Africa wait for Trump? The deeper crisis of African agency in peacebuilding
Why should it take the likes of Donald Trump to conclude a deal between Kigali and Kinshasa? The spectacle of a U. S. president showing off a peace agreement in Washington while bombs continue to fall in Eastern Congo is not merely an awkward irony, it is a symptom of seriously deep fractures in African agency, global political economy and the architecture of peace itself.
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