Congo president nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after US-brokered deal with Rwanda

Rwanda and Congo signed a peace agreement in Washington today to end fighting that has claimed thousands of lives, with the two countries pledging to withdraw their support for the guerrillas. The two foreign ministers signed the agreement, brokered by the US, Qatar and the African Union, in the presence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who acknowledged that there is "still a lot of work to be done".

Trump claimed the result and declared that the US 'will get a lot of mineral rights from Congo'.

The agreement comes after the M23 rebel group, an ethnic Tutsi force with extensive ties to Rwanda, entered the long-troubled, mineral-rich eastern part of Congo, conquering vast territory, including the key city of Goma. The agreement does not explicitly address the M23 conquests, but calls on Rwanda to end its 'defensive measures'. Rwanda denied directly supporting the rebels but called for an end to another armed group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, founded by ethnic Hutu groups linked to the massacres of Tutsis in the 1994 genocide.

Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after the agreement between his country and Rwanda signed today in Washington with the mediation of the United States. This was announced by a Congolese reporter to the president in the Oval Office.