On 4 February Vice-President J D Vance and Secretary Rubio welcomed Congo President Félix Tshisekedi to Washington for a meeting to form a preferential trade zone for critical minerals attended by 55 countries following Kinshasa's signing of a strategic partnership agreement with the US in December...

But Kigali will point out and the UN experts bear this out that President Félix Tshisekedi is also violating those accords as Kinshasa's army les Forces armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) has continued to coordinate with the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) after pledging to end cooperation...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi signed the peace agreement alongside US President Donald J Trump...

The plan was to expedite negotiations for the mineral-security accord then Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame would sign a peace treaty in the White House within a month...

Following US intervention Congo-K President Félix Tshisekedi's government and state mining company Gécamines rejected Norinco's bid...

Its other African engagement – a $5 million six-month lobbying contract with Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi – was abruptly cancelled just weeks after signing at the insistence of Trump's Africa advisor Massad Boulos (AC Vol 66 No 8 How Trump's in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists)...

Szlavik is also on retainer with President Félix Tshisekedi in Congo-Kinshasa who has offered the US access to his country's minerals as part of the fragile peace deal with Rwanda brokered by the US to end M23's military incursions in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 14 Trump family allies broker security and mining deals in Central Africa)...

Boulos says deals in both sectors will be signed at the White House in July when Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame are expected to attend a grand ceremony...

Although officially operating alongside the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) Uganda's General Muhoozi Kainerugaba – son of President Yoweri Museveni – travelled to Kinshasa in June where he met President Félix Tshisekedi to extend bilateral military cooperation...