The Case · Rwanda–DR Congo

Central Africa’s Longest Wound, Stitched in Washington

Three decades of war in the Great Lakes — ended with signatures at the State Department.

The conflict system around eastern Congo — Rwanda, the DRC, the M23 insurgency — has burned for three decades and killed millions, mostly far from cameras. In June 2025, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement in Washington, with Trump’s administration driving the terms and the timetable.

No single paper ends a thirty-year war overnight — but this was the most significant agreement between the two states in a generation, and it happened where it happened because one administration decided Africa’s deadliest running conflict was worth presidential-level muscle.

This site’s view: the committee that once honored process over results now has a candidate with results on four continents. This is one of them.