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Washington DC, USA – US President Donald Trump signs peace deal w DRC, settling decades long conflict in Eastern DRC
Washington DC, USA – US President Donald Trump signs peace deal w DRC, settling decades long conflict in Eastern DRC.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\r\nAfrican Discovery Group (‘ AFDG’), Copper\r\nIntelligence pending, highlights the announcement that leaders of the\r\nDemocratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a historic peace deal,\r\nending the long-running conflict in the region at a summit hosted by US\r\nPresident Donald Trump in Washington, with the respective Excellencies,\r\nPresident of the DRC, Felix Tshisekedi and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.\r\nThe Trump administration has led talks between\r\nDR Congo and Rwanda, hoping that resolving the differences between the two\r\nneighbours will pave the way for the US to increase investments in the\r\nresource-rich region, including numerous items on the strategic minerals list.\r\nOn August 27, 2025, the United States government added copper to its draft list\r\nof strategic metals, due to a supply deficit that is projected to equate to 2mm\r\ntons a year in the United States alone, due its necessity in telecommunications\r\ninfrastructure, data centers, artificial intelligence capital expenditure\r\nspend, electronic vehicle manufacture and defense-related industries. \r\nAccording to US\r\nPresident Trump, \"in DR Congo, China has already snapped up many of the\r\nminerals so the US is playing catch-up\". In the hopes of the Trump\r\nadministration implementing its peace model, President Trump has additionally\r\nstated that up to now US companies had been cautious about investing in DR\r\nCongo. The emerging transparency, improving governance, and a stronger enabling\r\nbusiness environment in the DRC, will help enable the vital private sector\r\ninvesting environment, and bankability. President Trump added “It’s a great day\r\nfor Africa”\r\nThursday’s agreement\r\nbuilds on a Regional Economic Integration Framework that will define economic partnerships\r\nwith the three countries, with the US simultaneously signing bilateral trade\r\nagreements, bringing new opportunities in the sphere of critical minerals, and\r\nPresident Trump promising the advent of US companies.\r\nAt the time of the\r\nclosing of the Copper Intelligence transaction, scheduled for the coming weeks,\r\nthe company will become the first stand-alone DRC company to be publicly traded\r\nand domiciled in the United States.","length":2206,"tagName":"div"}]