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Trade, Security Top Issues as African Leaders Meet

African leaders gather Saturday in Addis Ababa for an annual summit, aiming to jumpstart a faltering trade deal while also focusing on the continent's most pressing challenges, including armed conflict and a worsening food crisis. As the continent reels from a record drought in the Horn of Africa and deadly…

Asharq Al-Awsat

John Williams Ntwali, rare Rwandan journalist critical of govt, dies

John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda's few journalists who published stories critical of the government, has died, his newspaper The Chronicles reported.

Reuters

Tigray peace agreement: Rebels start handing over weapons to Ethiopian army

Tigrayan rebels start handing over their heavy weapons. It's a key condition of a deal signed in November to end a deadly conflict that ravaged Ethiopia for two years. Also, Rwanda says it does not have any intention of banning Congolese refugees, accusing the media of misrepresenting President Paul Kagame's…

France 24

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President Kagame says Rwanda can accept no more refugees from DR Congo

Rwanda can no longer offer refuge to people fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Paul Kagame has said, stoking further tension between the central African neighbours.

Radio France Internationale

France denounces Rwanda backing of M23 rebels over DRC killings

France has openly condemned Rwanda's support for the M23 rebel movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who are suspected of massacring at least 131 civilians in late November.

Radio France Internationale

The Rwanda deportation scheme might be legal, but it remains deeply shameful

Britain’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has got the go-ahead just as the African country edges towards ‘pariah state’ territory, says author Michela Wrong

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda's Kagame criticizes U.S. over concerns about 'Hotel Rwanda' hero's detention

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday criticized the United States over the concerns it has raised in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, a U.S. permanent resident jailed in Rwanda who was portrayed as a hero in the film "Hotel Rwanda"

Reuters

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Inter-Congolese dialogue opens as East Africa Community seeks to end DRC rebel activity

A fresh round of EAC-led talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and armed militia operational in the eastern DRC has opened in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi without, however, the presence of the M23 Tutsi rebel group that Kinshasa says is being supported by Kigali.

Radio France Internationale

Revealed: Suella Braverman’s trips to Rwanda to teach government lawyers

Exclusive: Home secretary visited country with Kagame-supported programme in 2008 and 2011

The Independent UK

M23: Four things you should know about the rebel group's campaign in Rwanda-DRC conflict

Fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national army and the rebel group M23 has displaced thousands of people in the eastern border city of Goma. Formed 10 years ago, the Rwanda-backed Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) soon made its first mark when it briefly occupied Goma, a city of…

The Conversation

World leaders descend on Qatar for World Cup 2022 kickoff

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas are among those arriving in Doha.

Al Jazeera

Kenyatta and Rwanda request M23 ceasefire and withdrawal from east Congo

(This Nov. 18 story has been refiled to correct headline to show Kenyan former president Kenyatta, not Kenya, requested ceasefire and withdrawal) Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in east…

Reuters

Rwanda agrees on ‘immediate ceasefire’ in eastern DR Congo

Kenya’s former president and Rwanda’s leader agree on need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from eastern DRC.

Al Jazeera

Kenya, Rwanda request M23 ceasefire, withdrawal from east Congo

We cross to Kenya, as former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame agree on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in eastern DR Congo. The rebels have waged several offensives there this year in their first major comeback since 2012, prompting…

France 24

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Al Jazeera

In Uganda, Museveni son’s tweets may mar presidential ambition

The army general’s diplomatic errors have raised debate about whether he can succeed his father, as is widely believed.

France 24

DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi: 'Presidential elections will take place in 2023'

The President of the DR Congo told FRANCE 24 that he wants to launch a "cry of truth" and put an end to hypocrisy by denouncing in the Tribune of the United Nations "the direct military aggression" of Rwanda against his country. Tshisekedi added that he relayed this same message…

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's secret Africa trip sent a message and 'proved people wrong', says expert

Prince Harry travelled under the radar to both Mozambique and Rwanda last week - and according to royal expert Jennie Bond, it shows he and Meghan Markle may want to be under the radar

The Guardian - UK

Justice should be colour blind. So why is it served for Ukraine but not the Congolese?

While the west races to investigate Russia’s war crimes, it continues to ignore atrocities perpetrated on DRC for 20 years

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Prince Harry meets Rwandan president and pays tribute to genocide victims on surprise trip

The Duke of Sussex visited Urugwiro Village in his role as President of the African Parks Network, speaking with President Paul Kagame about the work they do in Rwanda

The Independent UK

Harry meets Rwandan president on wildlife conservation trip

Harry visited as part of his work as president of African Parks.

The Guardian - UK

Treating refugees like ‘waste people’ is abhorrent, wherever they end up

The government is trying to hide its own views of Rwanda. But the problem with the plan goes deeper

Los Angeles Times

Jailed for terrorism, onetime hero Rusesabagina is a point of US contention with Rwanda

KIGALI, Rwanda — Paul Rusesabagina became known as a rare hero in one of modern history's ugliest chapters: the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans in the 1994 genocide. He was credited with saving a number of people and inspired books and a movie.

Los Angeles Times

Escalating border war in Africa tests a Biden administration already weighed down by global crises

KIGALI, Rwanda — The Biden administration is wading into one of the most complicated conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: escalating violence along the border between Congo and Rwanda that has echoed in the wars, genocide and rapes that stalked the region in recent decades.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the US in Africa: a better tone, but what next?

Editorial: Though the secretary of state struck the right note on his three-nation tour, it will take more than rhetoric to strengthen partnerships on the continent

Reuters

Blinken says he raised 'Hotel Rwanda' hero's detention with Rwandan leader

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he had raised with Rwanda's president U.S. concerns over the jailing of Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide.

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