President Trump’s top officials are raising alarm that violence on the ground in eastern Congo is outpacing U.S. efforts to implement a peace deal to end 30 years of conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.

The warnings from Trump’s top officials counter the president’s repeated claims that he has ended “un-endable wars.”

Trump’s special adviser for Africa Massad Boulos, who is also father-in-law to the president’s daughter Tiffany, conceded last week that fighting had not ended and more work was needed to follow through on the U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Congo and Rwanda.

“A lot of people are skeptical … and they say, ‘Oh, the fight has not ended.’ First of all, these things don't end overnight. That's number one. These things take some time,” Boulos said Sept. 24 during remarks at Semafor's Next 3 Billion Summit in New York.

“Has implementation [of the peace agreement] really started? Not fully yet, not fully.”

Days later, Mike Waltz, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, raised alarm that M23 Congolese rebels and the Rwandan Defense Force in Congo were blocking United Nations peacekeeping forces, referred to as Monusco, and undermining Washington’s efforts.

“We too strongly condemn the continued obstruction of Monusco’s operations, particularly by M23 and the Rwandan Defense Forces in North Kivu. Such actions we agree are absolutely unacceptable,” Waltz said at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Sept 30.

Waltz's remarks came the same day Trump boasted to hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals convened at a meeting hosted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he had “saved” Congo.

“They've been fighting for 31 years, 10 million people dead. I got that one done, and very proud of it.”

‘Peace is still mostly a promise’

At the U.N. Security Council, members heard testimony that a rise in attacks by M23 and other militias........

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