DRC-Rwanda: Donald Trump confirms signing of peace agreement for Friday

Kinshasa,  June 26^th, 2025 (CPA).– The signing ceremony for the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda  is confirmed for Friday,  under the auspices of the United States, the American President announced during a press briefing on Wednesday,  on the sidelines of a summit in The Hague, Netherlands. ‘The Congo and Rwanda will be in Washington this Friday. We are going to try to end this war. It has gone on for too long,’ he said on the sidelines of the NATO summit. Although this meeting has been officially announced, on the ground, there has been no sign of any withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the territories they occupy. Instead, kidnappings, assassinations and summary executions committed by the Rwandan army and its AFC-M23 auxiliaries are increasing every day. Already over the weekend, Donald Trump had announced the same news, saying that his administration had managed to establish a ‘wonderful’ agreement between the two states, which have been in conflict for more than 30 years. In addition to confirming the date of 27 June 2025 for the signing of the peace agreement between the DRC and Rwanda, under the auspices of the United States, President Donald Trump also confirmed, at the same time, the presence of Rwandan troops on Congolese territory. Last Friday, at a cabinet meeting, the Congolese government expressed its outrage at the 280 cases of killings and summary executions and 190 cases of rape committed by the attackers in the space of a month. On the same Wednesday, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi received Olusegun Obasanjo, former Nigerian president and designated EAC-SADC facilitator in the security crisis in eastern DRC. The latter welcomed the progress of discussions for a diplomatic resolution to the DRC-Rwanda conflict. ‘We are exploring all possibilities regarding the situation between Rwanda and the DRC so that there will be no more military confrontation and violence. The discussions I have had with my two brothers from Rwanda and the DRC are on the right track,’ Olusegun Obasanjo said after the more than two-hour meeting with President Félix Tshisekedi. The meeting, which lasted nearly two hours, was part of a regional diplomatic tour aimed at bringing together the positions of the DRC and Rwanda, whose relations remain tense against a backdrop of persistent violence in North Kivu and South Kivu. On April 25^th, an initial political agreement was signed between Kinshasa and Kigali, under the mediation of the United States, marking the beginning of a diplomatic process supported by the State Department and backed by Qatar.