{"id":215779,"date":"2025-12-05T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-rwanda-drc-sign-historic-peace-deal-in-washington-as-ruto-and-world-leaders-witness-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:12:49","slug":"congo-kinshasa-rwanda-drc-sign-historic-peace-deal-in-washington-as-ruto-and-world-leaders-witness-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-rwanda-drc-sign-historic-peace-deal-in-washington-as-ruto-and-world-leaders-witness-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Rwanda, DRC Sign Historic Peace Deal in Washington As Ruto and World Leaders Witness Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Washington, D.C., Us \u2014 President William Ruto has joined other world leaders in witnessing the signing of a historic peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington, D.C., United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The agreement, signed by Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the DRC, is aimed at ending a 30-year conflict in Eastern Congo that has claimed millions of lives and destabilised the wider Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">President Ruto described the accord as &#8220;a monumental&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050142.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C., Us \u2014 President William Ruto has joined other world leaders in witnessing the signing of a historic peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington, D.C., United States. The agreement, signed by Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the DRC, is aimed at ending a 30-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680124:aa489d66284f74ea9fe7bdc046280590:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6358,8386,7012,279,13203,430,4381,257,6157,11238,4702,4368,254,4565,7896,5093],"class_list":["post-215779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceremony","tag-congokinshasa","tag-deal","tag-drc","tag-historic","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-ruto","tag-rwanda","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-washington","tag-witness","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680124:aa489d66284f74ea9fe7bdc046280590:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}