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Vol 66 No 4

Published 21st February 2025


Rwanda

As Kinshasa fumes, Kigali plots its next move

Regional officials seem resigned to Rwandan control over swathes of eastern Congo as the price of a ceasefire

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is moving pieces at will around the regional chessboard in this deadliest of tournaments. His putative opponent in Kinshasa, President Félix Tshisekedi, is flailing, unable to respond to his government’s loss of sovereignty over its eastern provinces and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe. Tshisekedi’s forces lost control of Bukavu, the capital of Kivu-Sud, late on 14 February.

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