France, May 7 -- Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process aimed at ending the fighting in eastern Congo and attracting billions of dollars in Western investment, according to the senior adviser for Africa to US President Donald Trump earlier this week.

The deal is the latest step in an ambitious bid by the Trump administration in the US to end a decades-long conflict in the central Africa region, rich in minerals including tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper and lithium.

The two countries' foreign ministers had agreed last month, ata ceremony in Washingtonalongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to submit the draft proposal by 2 May.

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