Trump's other peace deals--in Africa

Trump did another peace deal while we were watching Iran's nuclear storage bombing on Saturday evening. It's not the two I was watching (South Sudan and Ethiopia Civil wars), but still worthy of note. The media really don't care about those black lives.

"President Donald J. Trump has brokered a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, marking a significant diplomatic achievement in Africa. This deal aims to end one of the continent’s deadliest and longest-running conflicts, characterized by violent bloodshed and instability.Trump announced the breakthrough on his social media platform, Truth Social, crediting the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio in facilitating the treaty.

The agreement represents a potential turning point for regional stability and peace in Central Africa.

This development has also drawn international attention, with Pakistan reportedly nominating Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts, although this nomination is separate from the Congo-Rwanda deal.

Notably, India has disputed Trump’s claims of involvement in resolving the India-Pakistan conflict, asserting that bilateral talks were conducted directly between the two nations." 

(Trump brokers peace in Africa, AI generated, June 24)

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Does anyone know why Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing? Even his ego probably didn't request it. I recently noticed a comment about that committee which choses the winners and losers in an Ethiopian newspaper (from 2021, but it's still true). Someone is always at war in that part of the world, and we hear little about it here in the U.S.

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has developed a lazy habit, at best, and, at worst, displayed dubious motives when it awards its Peace Prize to distant third-world countries like Myanmar and Ethiopia.

It never adequately does its homework when it throws prizes at leaders who promote their perverted version of ‘peace’; always couched in words amenable to Western ears, but always with ulterior priorities in their minds.

This is especially so when the committee adds other factors than unadulterated peace in its calculation, such as ‘the indispensability of Ethiopia’s stability to the region’ or ‘promoting democracy in the region’ that the West has been peddling with for decades, to the detriment of minor actors in the region. A little bit of vetting would have provided the committee with a complex picture of Abiy, enough to put doubts even on the biased minds, however implicit, of its members." ethiopia-insight.com