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	Rwanda
Population:	13.87m
GDP:	$13.66bn
Debt:	69.9% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change

20th March 2025

The collapse of negotiations offers some stark choices as President Tshisekedi’s position weakens further

A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

M23 militia blocks peace talks until Brussels drops sanctions

19th March 2025

The proliferation of negotiations in the Kinshasa-Kigali war is derailing the prospect for a ceasefire

Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Southern African militaries call time on their ill-fated Kivu operation

17th March 2025

The failure of the SADC mission sounds alarms about the future of multilateral attempts to resolve conflict on the continent

By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

RWANDA
EUROPEAN UNION

Suspending defence cash, Brussels edges towards sanctions

25th February 2025

Under growing pressure, European foreign ministers review Kigali’s minerals agreement

The European Union moved closer to sanctioning Rwanda on 24 February after the bloc’s foreign ministers agreed to suspend defence cooperation with Kigali and put the controversial agreement...

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Vol 66 No 4 |

As Kinshasa fumes, Kigali plots its next move

14th February 2025

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,...

Vol 66 No 4 |

Kinshasa cries foul on Arsenal FC

13th February 2025

Foreign minister Wagner quietly dropped in to London to undermine Rwanda’s sponsorship deal with a football club known for its prominent Labour supporters

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his...

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Vol 66 No 4 |

RWANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Silence in Addis as M23 takes Bukavu

18th February 2025

AU summit leaders show limited reaction to the fall of Kivu Sud’s largest city, despite rising concerns and calls for the rebel group to disarm

News of the fall of Bukavu, the largest city in Kivu Sud in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, over the weekend, while the region’s leaders gathered for the African Union summit...

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Vol 66 No 3 |

RWANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

After seizing Goma, Kigali’s rebels head south

31st January 2025

Angola could play key role as Kagame-Tshisekedi conflict threatens region

When Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and its Congolese allies, the M23 militia, captured Goma, the capital of Kivu-Nord province, over the weekend of 25-26 January, they exposed the...

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Vol 66 No 3 |

RWANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Kagame crosses red line as his forces back seizure of Goma

28th January 2025

Fears of a regional war rise as Rwandan-backed M23 militia captures Congolese city amid international condemnation

Kenya’s President William Ruto has telephoned Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame to invite then to an emergency summit in Nairobi on 29 January as M23 militia fighters,...

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Vol 66 No 3 |

RWANDA
EUROPEAN UNION

Mineral riches

7th February 2025

The European Union’s desperation to catch up with China’s mineral access is so great that it is willing to overlook evidence of mineral smuggling by M23 in eastern...

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