In Geneva this week, representatives of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo gather once more beneath the architecture of a peace they have not yet chosen to inhabit. The Washington Accords, signed in the hopeful aftermath of M23's 2025 offensive, promised a mutual unwinding of threat — Congo neutralizing the FDLR militia, Rwanda withdrawing its border forces — yet each side waits for the other to move first, and the eastern provinces bleed in the interval. What convenes on September 16 and 17 is not quite diplomacy and not quite failure, but something more familiar in the long stor
Rwanda-DRC peace talks test fragile 2025 accord amid continued fighting
Decades of conflict in eastern DRC involving armed groups, repeated fighting, and territorial displacement; M23 captured major cities including Goma and Bukavu in 2025.