{"id":295092,"date":"2025-05-12T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=295092"},"modified":"2025-05-12T01:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:39:13","slug":"the-congo-and-trumps-mineral-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/the-congo-and-trumps-mineral-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Congo and Trump&#8217;s Mineral Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2088522276&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-92939733\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Black Agenda Radio\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Agenda Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-92939733\/the-congo-and-trumps-mineral-deal\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Congo and Trump's Mineral Deal\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Congo and Trump&#8217;s Mineral Deal<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda recently signed a Declaration of Principles in Washington. Is Rwanda ending its M23 group\u2019s incursion into the DRC? What are the principles agreed to? How will this impact the people of Congo? Why did these events take place in Washington? What is the US role in the conflict? Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo , joins us from Washington to provide analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/congo-and-trumps-mineral-deal\" >Black Agenda Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Agenda Radio \u00b7 The Congo and Trump&#8217;s Mineral Deal The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda recently signed a Declaration of Principles in Washington. Is Rwanda ending its M23 group\u2019s incursion into the DRC? What are the principles agreed to? How will this impact the people of Congo? Why did these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":295093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[232,120,401,487,1050,234,985,118],"class_list":["post-295092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-capitalism","tag-conflict","tag-environment","tag-human-rights","tag-imperialism","tag-media","tag-social-justice","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295094,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295092\/revisions\/295094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}