Rwanda said Monday that London was obliged to pay the remaining sum from a controversial agreement to receive deported migrants that Britain abandoned

President Paul Kagame has launched a scathing attack on Canada following its decision to impose sanctions on Rwanda over allegations of involvement in the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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 ...

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.

The Rwandan government on Tuesday, March 4, criticised a statement by Global Affairs Canada on the ongoing conflict in eastern DR Congo, saying it was defamatory, shameful, and unacceptable. The March 3 statement in question was signed by Mélanie Joly,

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.

At the moment the situation in the eastern region of DRC is grim. Rwanda has been supporting several armed groups across the border that are working against the Congolese. This includes the latest armed group, the M23, made up of Tutsis who say they want to protect their fellow kinsmen known as the Banyamulenge, long marginalised by the DRC.

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.

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.

It is high time the South African National Defence Forces' (SANDF) holed up in a UN base camp in DR Congo's North Kivu Province returned home since they have no business in AFC/M23 rebel-held territory.