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On December 4^th, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda ratified a peace agreement, described as the Washington Accord, in an event that became Donald Trump’s platform to brag about how US firms will move to Eastern DRC to extract rare earths and make a lot of money.

Active contacts between Kinshasa and Washington and Doha established at the beginning of the year have paved the way for an agreement between the DRC government and the M23 to cease hostilities until the talks on ending the conflict are finished.

Since the M23 group gained control over the North and South Kivu provinces, the situation in the country as a whole, and in the region in particular, has remained complex.