Can the DRC-Rwanda deal deliver peace?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) involving a long history with neighboring Rwanda has created one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. With a United States-brokered agreement between the DRC and Rwanda to end the war, will there be peace?
In this episode:
- Kambale Musavuli (@kambale), Analyst, Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sonia Bhagat, and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Kisaa Zehra, Remas Alhawari, and our guest host, Manuel Rápalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a peace deal without justice for the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| 0:16.0 | After 30 years of bloodshed, a flourish of pens, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda |
| 0:22.7 | agree to wage peace. |
| 0:24.9 | And the United States, keen to take some credit for this moment. |
| 0:30.0 | Does the deal take into account the millions killed and millions more displaced, and |
| 0:35.0 | what's in it for the U.S. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Manuel Rapalo, and this is the take. |
| 0:53.7 | The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed a peace deal on June 27th, with the help of U.S. President Donald Trump. |
| 0:55.5 | And this is a long time waiting, |
| 0:58.0 | the signing of a historic peace agreement |
| 1:00.6 | between the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 1:04.2 | and the Republic of Rwanda. |
| 1:07.3 | The conflict has continued, |
| 1:09.7 | and it's been going on for many, many years. |
| 1:16.6 | The fighting stems from the 1994 Rwandan genocide that resulted in millions of Hutu refugees crossing the Congolese border. |
| 1:24.6 | Since 1996, two of US allies, Rwandan and Uganda, decided to invade the Congo under force |
| 1:32.1 | pretences. |
| 1:34.2 | They went back by the United States during the invasion. |
| 1:38.3 | And the invasion of 1996 caused the toppling of a long-time dictator, Bost Mobutu, and the installation of Laurent Desire Cabilla |
| 1:48.0 | as the president of the Congo in 1997. |
| 1:51.0 | That's when everything started. |
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