Congo and Rwanda Submit Draft Peace Proposal, Trump Adviser Says
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, US 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 US 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.
Washington wants to move quickly. In an interview with Reuters last week, Boulos said the plan was for Rubio to meet in mid-May in Washington with his Rwandan and Congolese counterparts in an effort to agree on a final draft peace accord.
