DR Congo, Rwanda sign peace deal in ‘turning point’ after years of conflict

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The US and Qatar-brokered bid statement indispensable beryllium followed by disengagement and the instrumentality of displaced families, DRC says.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda person signed a bid woody successful Washington, DC, to extremity years of warring betwixt the neighbouring countries.

Meeting successful the White House successful the United States connected Friday, overseas ministers from the 2 African countries signed an statement brokered by the US and Qatar.

The woody raises hopes for an extremity to warring that escalated with the beforehand of M23 rebels this year. The struggle has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands much since January.

“We judge that a turning constituent has been reached with the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said astatine the signing.

The bid statement indispensable beryllium followed by disengagement, justness and the instrumentality of displaced families, added Congolese Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner.

“This is an important infinitesimal aft 30 years of war,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who hosted the 2 overseas ministers astatine the Department of State successful Washington for the signing.

The woody volition besides assistance the US authorities and American companies summation entree to captious minerals needed for overmuch of the world’s exertion astatine a clip erstwhile the US and China are actively competing for power successful Africa.

Analysts spot the woody arsenic a large turning constituent but don’t judge it volition rapidly extremity the warring that has killed millions of radical since the 1990s.

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