DRC’s peace deal with Rwanda risks swapping war for resource exploitation | Opinions

The US-brokered truce may end fighting – but could also open the door to a new scramble for Congo’s critical minerals.

The United States-mediated peace agreement to be signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda on June 27 – a development ostensibly aimed at quelling decades of brutal conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region – casts a long and familiar shadow. While the immediate cessation of hostilities provides a desperately needed respite, the deal, brokered by the Trump administration and witnessed by the State of Qatar, arrives with an unsettling…