President Donald Trump praised the leaders of Congo and Rwanda for their courage Thursday as they gathered in Washington to sign a key deal for peace.

Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda joined Trump to sign a deal aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo and opening access to the region's critical minerals for the U.S. government and American companies.

"It is an amazing day. Great day for Africa, great day for the world and for these two countries," Trump said in remarks at the U.S. Institute of Peace - which the State Department announced Wednesday has been renamed the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.

Several officials from other African nations were also on hand to witness the signing, in the same week Trump contemptuously derided the war-torn country of Somalia and said he did he did not want immigrants from the East African nation in the U.S.

Lauded by the White House as a “historic” agreement brokered by Trump, the pact between Tshisekedi and Kagame follows monthslong peace efforts by the U.S. and partners, including the African Union and Qatar, and finalizes an earlier deal signed in June.

But the Trump-brokered peace is precarious.

The Central African nation of Congo has been battered by decadeslong fighting with more than 100 armed groups, the most potent being the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

The conflict escalated this year, with M23 seizing the region’s main cities of Goma and Bukavu in an unprecedented advance, worsening a humanitarian crisis that was already one of the world’s largest, with millions of people displaced.

The signing provided Trump — who has repeatedly and with a measure of exaggeration boasted of brokering peace in some of the world's most entrenched conflicts — another chance to tout himself as a dealmaker extraordinaire on the global stage and make the case that he's deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The U.S. leader hasn't been shy about his desire to receive the honor.