Reuters
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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.
Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame on Thursday reaffirmed commitments to a US-brokered deal reached in June to stabilize the vast country and open the way for more Western mining investment.
“We’re settling a war that’s 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…
