Comfort Ero

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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer · War and Peace in 2025, with Clarissa Ward and Comfort Ero · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

The new story in this conflict is the role of the United States.

And in effect, if one stood back objectively, you will see that the peace agreement is a good summary

of the various agreements that have been tested out that the Africa Union or other regional leaders have tried to pursue over the last few years.

So, for example, the Angolan leader had been trying on various occasions to try and get the regional leaders together.

But the breakdown of trust between President Kagame of Rwanda and President Chisikide of the DRC, the old legacies of the genocide militia forces, the concerns about Rwanda's own interest into the DRC, these have been there already.

Enter the U.S.

There was a commercial lens to this.

There's also the wider geopolitical.

Critical minerals lens.

And I think Chisikidi saw what was bubbling away with Ukraine.

There's also from a geopolitical lens in the relationship between.

between Qatar, Rwanda, and the DRC, providing a new lens in which to deal with peacemaking, because the traditional actors in the conflict, Ian, had tended to be the region of Europe, particularly, and the African Union.

Those sets of actors are not playing the same frontline role that they were.

In a sense, they've shifted to the back.

And then you've got a new set of players, new sets of issues, different sets of interests that may cajole the various actors together.

And the critical minerals, the commercial dimension of this, the economic peacemaking engaged in this is a new dynamic.

But it hasn't changed the blame game in the conflict between the two sides.

And in the end,

You need a leaders-to-leaders conversation.

You do need Kagame and Chisikede coming to sit together and discussing what is actually driving this conflict and addressing their own interest about the governance both in the eastern DRC, eastern Congo, but also the power balances between Kagame and Chisikede.

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