The peace deal agreed in December by the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, brokered by a beaming President Donald Trump, was doomed to fail. The main belligerent in the conflict, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group that controls the mineral-rich eastern DRC, wasn’t a signatory. And the optics were inauspicious: Trump mispronounced the names of Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and
Geopolitics Bloomberg Oct 16, 2026
