Foreign policy · 2025-08-19
The Congo-Rwanda conflict was fully settled and nobody was being killed
False
Trump portrayed the Congo-Rwanda dispute as completely settled, with nobody being killed.
What the evidence shows
The U.S. helped broker a peace agreement, but violence continued afterward, including hundreds of reported civilian deaths in North Kivu.
What happened next
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Assessment notes
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