Western countries that have imposed sanctions on Rwanda over the conflict in eastern DR Congo were motivated by vested interests in the mineral-rich country, says the Minister of State for Regional Cooperation.

Germany’s development ministry says it will suspend new financial commitments to Rwanda over that country’s alleged support of the M23 rebels in neighboring eastern Congo

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.

It has warned that it would not return the $410 million already paid by London to Kigali. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By December 2024, the outlines of Rwanda’s larger project were becoming clearer. That month, an expert panel reported to the UN that a “parallel administration” was being established in territories seized by the M23 in North Kivu—arrangements that ...

DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting peace while stemming support to militias.

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.

The North Kivu city of Masisi and its surroundings “are the scene of almost daily clashes” between the M23 and Wazalendo, medical charity MSF said. The M23 is now moving towards the town of Uvira near the Burundi border on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika — the main exit route for fleeing Congolese soldiers.

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo

A British government minister who suggested that Rwanda had links with the Ugandan terrorist group ADF has retracted his claims after he admitted to the blunder, The New Times has learnt.

Rwanda's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned Canada's recent statement on the ongoing conflict in eastern DR Congo, accusing the North American country of overlooking Rwanda's security concerns and unfairly blaming it for the crisis.

Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe condemned the comments as “insulting, unacceptable,” and ignorant.