Peace in Rwanda and Congo?
Can we even begin to trust this good news? It’s mostly being covered by the press in Europe rather than the US, but it caught my eye [my emphasis]:
Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process meant to end fighting in eastern Congo and attract billions of dollars of Western investment, U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa said on Monday.
It is the latest step in an ambitious bid by the Trump administration to end a decades-long conflict in a region rich in minerals including tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper and lithium. …
The two countries’ foreign ministers agreed last month, at a ceremony in Washington alongside U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to submit the draft proposal by May 2.
But neither Kinshasa nor Kigali has publicly confirmed doing so, and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Saturday on X that the two sides’ contributions “have not yet been consolidated.”
Massad Boulos, who is Trump’s senior adviser for Africa and the Middle East, said on X on Monday that he welcomed “the draft text on a peace proposal received from both DRC and Rwanda,” describing it as “an important step” towards peace. …
The hope is that all three agreements can be signed in about two months, and on the same day, at a ceremony attended by Trump, Boulos said.
Those minerals again.
The two countries have a long, tragic, and bloody history. Here’s a portion of it.
The Trump administration has been very busy indeed, hasn’t it?
I remember vividly as a kid being shocked by the movie Africa Addio. I guess not much has changed in central Africa since then.
If Trump can out maneuver the Chinese on African minerals, so much the better.
Busy and effective.
The most peace seeking president of my lifetime.
There has been so much mass murder in Central Africa for so long, and, the saddest thing is that no one really seems to care.
It’s like the tens of millions of deaths in China’s Great Leap Forward. No one cared that tens of millions of Chinese peasants were starved to death. After all, they were just peasants and China had tens of millions more where they came from.
There are days that I hope there isn’t a Hell, and I certainly hope not to be in it. But, when I think of the political leaders who presided over these mass murders, I hope that that there’s a deep level of Hell reserved just for them, and that they are forced to re-live the suffering that they put each and every one of their victims through for all eternity.