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

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