President Paul Kagame arrived in Washington, DC on Wednesday 3, December 2025, where he is expected to meet US President Donald Trump and sign a peace agreement with DR Congo counterpart on Thursday.
The White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters that DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda President Paul Kagame will sign a “historic peace and economic agreement, expected to put an end to a conflict in eastern Congo.
The US-brokered accord promises to lay the foundation for peace and regional economic integration.
The agreement includes a formal Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for dismantling FDLR and establishing a standing joint security coordination mechanism.
Rwanda says the existence of FDLR, a UN-sanctioned terrorist militia mainly comprised of remnants of the masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, is an existential threat to the region, pointing to its record of cross-border shellings, attacks on Congolese Tutsi communities, and its role in radicalising local militias.
The collaboration between the Congolese military and the FDLR has long been at the centre of tensions between Rwanda and DR Congo.
Thursday’s summit builds on months of American and Qatari mediation and follows a sequence of agreements that have struggled to hold on the ground as hostilities have continued amid talks.
It follows the sign of the June 27 peace agreement between Rwanda and DR Congo in Washington and the November 15 signing of a peace framework between the Congolese government and the AFC/M23 in Doha.
