Years of fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda may be at an end – thanks to a peace deal signed in the United States.
Rwanda has agreed to remove thousands of troops from eastern Congo that were supporting the Rwandan-backed armed group M23, as it took control of major cities and mining areas.
That was widely seen as a major escalation and stoked fears of a regional conflict.
So can this agreement succeed where many others have failed?
And is this deal really about US interest in Congolese minerals?
Presenter: Nick Clark
Guests:
Gatete Nyiringabo, Political Commentator and writer.
Zainab Usman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Vava Tampa, Founder and Chief Campaigner of Save the Congo.
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