Justice Vital for Durable Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), and Foreign Minister of Rwanda Olivier Nduhungirehe, signing the Declaration of Principles at the US State Department, Washington, DC, April 25, 2025. © 2025 Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Photo United States-led efforts to end the current armed conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region appear oblivious to one of the key drivers of the hostilities: the region’s history of failing to punish those responsible for atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic…

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