🕵️♂️ Intelligence Analysis | Rwanda–DRC Peace Agreement: Strategic Implications, Pitfalls, and the Trump Doctrine in Africa
🌍 Ujasusi Blog’s Great Lakes Region Monitoring Team
📅 June 27, 2025
⏰ 18:00 BST
🧭 Strategic Overview
On Friday, June 27, 2025, a historic but controversial peace agreement was signed in Washington, D.C., between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Rwanda, in the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Brokered by the administration of President Donald Trump, the accord ostensibly promises a 90-day window for Rwandan troop withdrawal from eastern DRC, regional economic integration, and joint security coordination.
Beneath the ceremony and rhetoric, however, lies a complex geopolitical matrix that combines U.S. mineral security ambitions, Great Lakes ethnic fault lines, and a history of failed peace processes. This intelligence analysis explores whether this agreement represents a genuine pathway to peace or a fragile accord masking entrenched strategic interests.