{"id":105149,"date":"2025-07-10T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/trump-plans-meeting-with-rwanda-and-dr-congo-leaders"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:30:58","slug":"trump-plans-meeting-with-rwanda-and-dr-congo-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/trump-plans-meeting-with-rwanda-and-dr-congo-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Trump Plans Meeting with Rwanda and DR Congo Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>United States President Donald Trump has announced that he expects to meet the Presidents of Rwanda and DR Congo in the &#8220;next couple of weeks&#8221; in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the signing of a US-brokered peace agreement on Friday, June 27, in Washington, DC, by Rwanda\u2019s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe and his Congolese counterpart Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after over two months of U.S-led mediation to bring peace to DR Congo and the Great Lakes Region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next couple of weeks, the leaders of both countries will come to sign the final agreement,&#8221; Trump said on Wednesday, July 9 as he welcomed African leaders from Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>He described the agreement as a &#8220;breakthrough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame on July 4 commended the US efforts to mediate talks between Rwanda and DR Congo and brokering the agreement that entails the neutralisation of the FDLR, a genocidal militia founded by remnants of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and the lifting of Rwanda\u2019s defensive measures.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame said Rwanda is committed to implementing the agreement as DR Congo would also honour its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the June 27 signing ceremony witnessed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump said, \u201cThe countries represented were very happy that we were able to solve that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re going to be signing an end to the horrible 30-year war. 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