Trump’s biggest peace deal ‘may be the one we all overlooked’

There’s no doubt President Donald Trump is trying to restore peace around the globe, after multiple wars broke out under the U.S. leadership of Joe Biden.

Some have been reduced, while others still rage. Key right now are the wars between Iran and Israel and Russia and Ukraine. The Israel-Iran conflict appears to be subsiding, while the Russia-Ukraine conflict isn’t.

But among the various projects on which Trump has worked is a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That one was ignored by many media organizations.

WND reported that it was ending three decades of war.

Vice President JD Vance praised Trump’s role, “If I think about what I know about these two countries, for 30 years, pretty much the entire time that I can remember these two countries being in the news, much of the story has been about them fighting one another, about them killing one another. And now, we can look forward to a future where my children will look at this moment as the beginning of a new story, a story of prosperity and peace.”

President Trump welcomed the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Oval Office to sign a historic peace agreement, ending a 30-year conflict.

“Today, the violence & destruction come to an end, & the entire region begins a new chapter of hope.” pic.twitter.com/20P2SMBQiR

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 27, 2025

And while that one hasn’t been the topic of nightly news reports, or even weekly reports, a commentary at the Washington Stand notes it may be the most important of all, the “one we all overlooked.”

That’s because of the atrocities involved.

Random beheadings en masse. Mass rapes. Dozens of bodies of decapitated victims, lootings, burnings, terrorism, butchery, for decades.

“This is the hellish situation that the Trump administration has been intensely negotiating behind the scenes to stop,” the commentary explained.

“They were going at it for many years, and with machetes,” the president emphasized. “It is one of the worst wars that anyone has ever seen. And I just happened to have somebody that was able to get it settled.”

The Washington Stand explained, “In an incredible development, the president celebrated a peace deal between the two nations, which could end the decades-long bloodshed that has ravaged the two bordering countries.

“We just ended a war that was going on for 30 years with six million people dead,” Trump said, as the foreign ministers flanked him. “No other president could do it.”

The ceasefire “is one of the most consequential achievements of Trump’s term,” the commentary said.

The article cited multiple atrocities, include when “rebels” founded up Christians, tied them together and hauled them to a nearby church where later the grisly scene “defied imagination,” as there were bodies of dozens of men, women and children, all decapitated. Manhy of the attacks are by Islamic terrorists on members of the Christian population.

“While Americans’ attention has been on Israel, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, China, and our own borders, a vicious war has raged between Rwanda and the DRC, a systematic campaign of rape, terror, and butchery against the predominately Christian nation of the DRC. For months, that quiet invasion has only intensified, as a rebel force linked to Rwanda — the M23 — along with the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) tried to seize key territories of the second largest country in Africa and control the mineral-rich land, said to be sitting on $24 trillion worth of natural resources,” the commentary said.

“Thousands have been killed — shot in cold blood, blown to pieces with shoulder-fired rockets, or caught up in the massive explosions since the conflict peaked earlier this year,” it explained.

“In just two months, more than 10,000 cases of rape and sexual violence — almost half against children as young as 10 — have been documented (countless others were not). Until recently, the locals ‘describe[d] a state of near lawlessness in city centers, where gangs of armed men, some escaped from local prisons, prey on civilians using weapons left behind by the Congolese army,’” it said.

“Under the terms of the agreement, The Washington Post reports, the two sides agreed to ‘halt aggression against each other and to cease support for armed groups on each other’s territory.’ They also pledged to try to cooperate economically, including on ‘mining and processing materials and other resources that link both countries, in partnership, as appropriate, with the U.S. government and U.S. investors.’”

Joel Kappa, a Fulbright alumnus and resident of Congo, told the Stand, he is “deeply grateful to President Trump’s administration and its commitment to end the war.”

“I’m praying,” Kappa continued, “that God will continue to use President Trump’s administration to end this long and meaningless conflict between DRC and Rwanda. I’m convinced that the time for peace has come, and we must learn now to love and live together like brothers and sisters. That’s what God wants from us as His children, and I’m happy to see that President Trump and his administration understand it clearly.”

One Rwandan official said Trump, because of his work, “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely.”