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Peace prize by numbers
The Citizen
|December 12, 2025
Trump counts ceasefires in wars that never stopped, or never existed.
It's so sad. That poor, kindly man on the phone at all hours of the day and night, 79 years old and still trying to do good and bring peace and that, but as soon as he hangs up they're right back at war again.
First it was Africa in June, when Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a peace deal in Washington after decades of conflict. Donald Trump said it would help increase trade between them and the US.
However, neither side actually stopped shooting in the eastern Congo and, right now, the M23 rebels - backed by Rwanda - are conquering their third big city there, Uvira.
DRC presidential spokesperson Tina Salama has had to deny that the peace deal involved "selling out on minerals to the Americans... it's not peace for minerals". That's a sure sign that the peace deal was really about selling out on minerals to the Americans.
In July, Trump spoke his words of wisdom to the Thais and Cambodians, who immediately stopped fighting and began beating their swords into ploughshares. But last weekend the shooting started again.
This story is from the December 12, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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