Cracks in Trump’s peace pitch


Displaced Burundian nationals lining up with their belongings on the Congolese side of the border as they attempt to cross into Burundi following the closure of the border at the Kavimvira border post. — AFP

AS US President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Rwanda and Congo early this month, he said his administration had accomplished what others could not.

“We’re succeeding where so many others have failed and this has become the eighth war that we’ve ended in less than one year,” Trump said, speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington.

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