Overview

• Both governments have pledged to respect the DRC’s borders and cease cross-border hostilities.
• The provisional accord calls for the disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration of non-state armed groups in eastern DRC.
• M23 rebels, accused of receiving military support from Rwanda, seized Goma and Bukavu early in 2025.
• Violence in North and South Kivu has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee.
• Kinshasa reportedly offered the United States preferential access to key mining resources in exchange for diplomatic backing.