The offer was made after a phone call between Trump's special advisor on Africa Massad Fares Boulos and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit we hear (AC Vol 66 No 8 How Trump's in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists)...
Vice-President JD Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos all echoed the sentiment (Dispatches 6/5/25 Ceasefire minerals deal and troops out as peace deal takes shape)...
READ FOR FREE
The highest profile would-be mediator is Massad Boulos President Donald Trump's advisor on African affairs (and father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump)...
On 3 June the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia Qatar United Arab Emirates and Egypt met with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Massad Boulos in Washington...
US envoy Massad Boulos's statement of intent on Sudan is regarded as a follow-up to his mediation in the mineral-security deal between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda signed on 27 June in Washington...
US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos and US hedge fund executive Gentry Beach – both with close links to US President Donald J Trump's family – were prime movers in the discreet business-infused negotiations leading to the signing of a peace accord between the foreign ministers of Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda in Washington DC on 27 June (Dispatches 16 June Washington wants security-mining deal finalised by end of June)...
DISPATCHES
President Donald Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Fares Boulos wants a peace and security deal signed in June alongside US minerals-access agreements with both Rwanda and Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 8 Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa)...
READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES
Five Democratic Congress members have sent a letter to President Donald Trump's Africa advisor Massad Boulos demanding details of the administration's deal on critical minerals that has accompanied its peacemaking between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda...
READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES
This follows regional consultations last month led by Massad Fares Boulos who has been named as US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Africa...
READ FOR FREE
Washington's latest intervention in Kinshasa led by Massad Fares Boulos senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump is disrupting the calculations of Congolese politicians and warlords...
READ FOR FREE
Tshisekedi's change of heart followed his meeting with Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Fares Boulos on 3 April in Kinshasa who is said to have requested that official channels between Kinshasa and Washington be prioritised signalling the strategic importance of Congo's mineral reserves...