WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will bring together the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington on Thursday to sign a peace agreement, months after an earlier US-brokered deal failed to stop violence.
“President Trump will host the presidents of the Republic of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to sign the historic peace and economic agreement that he brokered,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday.
Trump had met in June at the White House with the two countries’ foreign ministers as they signed an earlier deal, and has since boasted that DR Congo is one of a number of countries where he has ended war.
But violence has continued, with both sides blaming each other. It was not immediately clear how different the presidential-level agreement will be from the June deal.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame last week publicly accused the Congolese government of delaying the signing of a peace deal.
