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)...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...