President William Ruto on Tuesday left the country for Washington D.C., in the United States of America (USA), to witness the official signing of the DRC-Rwanda Peace Agreement and key talks between Kenya and the US.
A statement on Tuesday by State House Spokesperson, Hussein Mohamed, confirmed Ruto's departure.
"At the invitation of President Donald J. Trump, President William Ruto departs this afternoon for Washington, D.C., in the U.S.A. to join President Paul Kagame and President Félix Tshisekedi in witnessing the official signing of the DRC-Rwanda Peace Agreement; the most significant breakthrough in addressing decades of conflict in Eastern DRC," read the statement.
According to the State House, the signing of the pact builds on the Nairobi and Luanda Peace Processes as well as the joint EAC-SADC initiative.
The Washington signing brings together all key parties and is expected to unlock pathways for disarmament, demobilisation, humanitarian access, and long-term stabilisation.
President Trump will host the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, December 4, 2025, according to the White House.
Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters that DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda President Paul Kagame will sign a “historic peace and economic agreement that [Trump] brokered”.
The event comes after the foreign ministers of the two African nations signed a preliminary peace agreement and economic pact at a White House event in June. After months of talks, they met in Qatar in November and signed a framework with the ultimate goal of putting an end to years of fighting.
M23 rebels have fought the DRC government in North Kivu province for over a decade, in a conflict with roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The rebels, among more than 100 groups operating in eastern DRC, are made up primarily of ethnic Tutsi, who were targeted by the Hutu in Rwanda.
While in Washington, President Ruto will also participate in engagements aimed at advancing Kenya's strategic interests in trade, investment, health cooperation, and security.
He will also witness the signing of the Kenya-U.S. Health Cooperation Framework, which shifts the 25-year partnership to a sustainable, government-led model aimed at advancing Universal Health Coverage and supporting a self-reliant health system by 2030.
In all scheduled engagements, President Ruto will endeavour to outline Kenya's new economic transformation agenda towards a first-world economy, driven by human capital development, infrastructure expansion, agro-industrial growth, and expanded irrigation through extensive dam construction.
He will seek Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investment in these priority sectors, alongside enhanced energy security initiatives, to support the country's long-term development aspirations.
