Officials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are meeting in Geneva on September 16–17 to assess progress on the Washington Accords, a peace agreement signed in June 2025 that outlines mutual security commitments between the two countries. The talks, convened under a Joint Security Coordination Mechanism with mediators from the US, Qatar, Togo and the African Union, come as fighting persists in eastern DRC and two central obligations — Kinshasa's neutralisation of the FDLR (a Rwandan Hutu armed group with roots in the 1994 genocide that has operated in eastern DRC for decades) and Rwanda's withdrawal of forces from the border — remain incomplete. The dispute over how to handle the FDLR is particularly contentious, with Rwanda rejecting a disarmament protocol the DRC signed with a faction of the group, arguing the accord requires the militia to be neutralised rather than negotiated with.