Fighting raged in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, a day after US President Donald Trump hosted Congolese and Rwandan leaders in Washington to sign new deals aimed at ending years of conflict in a region rich in minerals.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandas Paul Kagame, on Thursday, reaffirmed commitments to a US-brokered deal reached in June to stabilise the vast country and open the way for more Western mining investment.
Were settling a war thats been going on for decades, said Trump, whose administration has intervened in a string of conflicts around the world to burnish his credentials as a peacemaker and advance US business interests.
