United States President Donald Trump will host his counterparts from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to sign a peace agreement.
The White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, announced this to reporters on Monday.
Leavitt said DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda President Paul Kagame will sign a “historic peace and economic agreement brokered” by Trump.
The event comes after the foreign ministers of the two African nations signed a preliminary peace agreement and economic pact at a White House event in June.
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After months of talks, they met in Qatar in November and signed an economic framework with the ultimate goal of putting an end to years of fighting.
M23 rebels have fought the DRC government in North Kivu province for over a decade, in a conflict with roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The rebels, among more than 100 groups operating in eastern DRC, are made up primarily of ethnic Tutsi, who were targeted by the Hutu in Rwanda.
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