Overview

• Ministers from the DRC and Rwanda will formally sign the peace agreement on June 27 in Washington, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio will witness the ceremony.
• Technical teams initialled the draft text on June 18 after three days of US-Qatar-mediated talks in the US capital.
• The accord mandates respect for borders, a ban on hostilities and the disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration of non-state armed groups.
• It also creates a joint security coordination mechanism and provisions for refugee returns, humanitarian access and economic integration.
• Diplomats say implementing the deal could unlock billions in Western investment tied to eastern Congo’s cobalt, copper, gold and lithium reserves.