Trump says he will meet with the presidents of Rwanda and the DR Congo in the upcoming weeks

The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump in the “next couple of weeks” at the White House.

Following more than two months of U.S.-led mediation to bring peace to DR Congo and the Great Lakes Region, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe and his Congolese counterpart Therese Kayikwamba Wagner signed a US-brokered peace agreement in Washington, DC, on Friday, June 27.

As he greeted African leaders from Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal on Wednesday, July 9, Trump stated, “The leaders of both countries will come to sign the final agreement over the next couple of weeks.”

The deal, he said, was a “breakthrough.”

On July 4, President Paul Kagame praised the United States’ efforts to mediate negotiations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and broker the agreement that calls for the removal of Rwanda’s defensive measures and the neutralization of the FDLR, a genocidal militia established by the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

According to Kagame, Rwanda is dedicated to carrying out the agreement, just as DR Congo will.

Trump stated, “The countries represented were very happy that we were able to solve that problem,” in reference to the signing ceremony on June 27 that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended.

“We will be concluding the terrible conflict that has lasted for thirty years. It’s been ongoing for a while,” he continued.

“He was very much involved in that settlement,” Trump said, thanking Mossad Boulos, his senior advisor for Africa, for his participation in the mediation process. The majority of people believed it was impossible. However, there is still a lot more.