Therese Wagner said no deal had been made with the Trump administration but Kinshasa was exploring forms of cooperation
The March 23 Movement is filling administrative positions in Goma
and Rwanda may do the same in Kivu
Southern and East African leaders gave military commanders five days to give technical direction on an immediate ceasefire
The two ministers spoke a day after Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame took exception to a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa and launched a verbal attack on X
The Rwandan president is defying international pressure to withdraw his soldiers from eastern DRC where they are backing militia
The Rwandan president accused president Cyril Ramaphosa and officials of distorting talks between the two, calling it a mix of attacks, lies, and misrepresentation
President Cyril Ramaphosa remains in direct contact with the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and of Rwanda, the perceived backer of the M23 rebels
The South African Defence Force confirmed four more of its troops have died, bringing the number lost in the rebel advance on Goma to 13
President Paul Kagame may have revived the country after the 1994 genocide but his actions have prevented any meaningful opposition and accusations of intimidation, torture and assassination
With 65 percent of the population aged under 30, Kagame is the only leader most Rwandans have ever known
Dropping democracy for aspirant autocrats who will put everything in order with a big stick might not be all it’s cracked up to be
Heads of state met at the African Development Bank’s gathering this week, where they mulled an overhaul of the world’s financial architecture
Bernard Ntaganda, a fierce critic of President Paul Kagame, had petitioned the high court in a bid to set aside convictions dating back more than a decade
It says the international community has failed to recognise and stem the persecution of Rwandan refugees and critics of the Kagame regime
There is growing evidence of women across the continent facing online disinformation campaigns
A classified FBI report confirms that US law enforcement has long known of Rwandan intelligence operations against civilians on its soil
Mozambique and Rwanda’s new deal comes after 19 people ‘agreed’ to return home
With regional forces retaking Cabo Delgado, insurgents turn their attention inland
While Kagame has won praise for bringing stability and economic growth to Rwanda, he has also come under fire for cracking down on political freedoms.
Paul Rusesabagina — credited with saving hundreds of lives during the Rwandan genocide — was recently found guilty of terrorism, after being ‘tricked’ into custody by the Kagame regime
Responding to widespread claims that France is funding Rwandan forces, the president says ‘no one is sponsoring’ his army
But experts doubt the South African intelligence community has the capacity even to establish whether Ramaphosa’s phone was compromised
The countries offering training are the SADC, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States while it appears that Rwanda ‘has plans to deploy’
Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid, the theme of her latest book
The damning Muse report, commissioned by the Rwandan government, labels France a ‘collaborator’ of the Hutu regime, but falls short of labelling the country as complicit
In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?
‘The only thing they want is for us to sing the praises of President Kagame,’ said Kizito Mihigo, in one of the last interviews before his death.
Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back
Explosive witness testimony from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda implicates Paul Kagame and the RPF in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 genocide.
The United States has never been shy to pass judgment on African elections. What does it look like when Africa passes judgment on America’s chaotic vote?
Too often, governments talk the talk on gender equality, but fail to walk the walk
Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like