Rwand has warned it would not return the S$410 million already paid by London to Kigali. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may now be endangered.
Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first democratic elections after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi--the West has struggled to accept his leadership, with some even wishing he had never become Rwanda's president.
Rwanda-backed M23 Rebels have attacked the DR Congo army’s positions in the South Kivu province. This comes just days after East and Southern African bloc leaders called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. The M23 rebels have also threatened to ...
Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against Congolese forces.
By Dider Makal On Feb. 13, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to suspend a cooperation agreement with Rwanda on a trio of minerals critical to the clean energy transition, citing their links to the ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.
On February 16th soldiers from M 23 marched single-file through the streets of Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second-largest city. The beleaguered remains of the Congolese army had retreated without a fight. Rebel fighters toting grenade-launchers and machine-guns took triumphant selfies in the city’s main square.