The pressure is mounting on Massad Boulos senior Africa advisor to United States President Donald Trump after the latest setback to his efforts to corral Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda into a peace and security agreement underwritten by a mining accord...
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A key principle of the US-backed peace plan drawn up by Trump advisor Massad Boulos was that Congo would bring in US investors to develop the Rubaya mine and Rwanda would order the M23 to relinquish control of it...
After meeting Gen Burhan in Zurich on 11 August US President Donald Trump's Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos has not met any senior RSF representatives but he did meet with key Hemeti ally the UAE's Vice-President and National Security Advisor Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan shortly afterwards...
Eritrea and South Sudan may prove difficult interlocutors: President Trump's Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos was due to meet with delegations from Asmara and Juba at the UN General Assembly in the week ending 27 September...
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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)...
A three-hour meeting in Zurich between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and United States President Donald Trump's Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos on 11 August was the first sign of serious movement in Sudan peace negotiations for a year...
He omitted any mention of his meeting with United States envoy Massad Boulos just three days earlier...
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The latest contract was filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act on 23 July – the same day Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Boulos met Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in Tripoli before travelling to Benghazi to meet General Khalifa Haftar the following day...
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)...
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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 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)...