But in Brazzaville – under Denis Sassou-Nguesso's authoritarian sway for all but five of the past 43 years – it will be harder to escape echoes of old françafrique complicity while Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi is sure to push for more assertive French condemnation of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels threatening Goma...

President Félix Tshisekedi has been consolidating power but that does not mean accountability and better governance are any closer than when he fraudulently won the presidency in 2018...

Kainerugaba meanwhile publicly praises the Congolese M23 rebel leader Sultani Makenga who Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi believes is being supported by Kagame...

Chaired by Angola's president João Lourenço the summit brought together Congo-Kinshasa's Felix Tshisekedi Kenyatta Burundi's Evariste Ndayishimiye and Rwanda's foreign minister Vincent Biruta...

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accuses Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame of backing the M23 militia as a means of looting minerals in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 63 No 14 Tshisekedi calls out Kagame on the M23 militia)...

This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...

Trust between the Congolese and Rwandan Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame has slumped to its lowest ebb for three years...