President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, said on Monday that a U.S.-brokered peace agreement with Rwanda signed in June has failed to ease fighting in eastern Congo, while expressing gratitude to President Donald Trump for efforts to resolve the conflict.

On June 27, U.S. mediators brokered the peace deal between Congo and Rwanda aimed at ending the support that Washington and U.N. experts say Kigali provides M23 rebels.

The Trump administration has said it is eager to end fighting that has killed thousands this year and attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich in tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper, and lithium. The deadline to implement part of the U.S. deal is this month.

Despite his support for U.S. mediation, it “does not mean that w

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