Inside the US-led peace deal between Congo and Rwanda
US President Donald Trump hosts Foreign ministers Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda (left) and Therese Kayikwamba Wagner of DR Congo (right) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC after they signed the peace deal on June 27, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance also present.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda will have to invest all of their political will into the new peace deal brokered by the US, even as Washington prepares to reap the minerals from the pact signed on Friday.
Either that or the agreement, which requires each side to find its own funding for implementation, could suffer the same fate as several others before it.
