Rwanda’s Kagame: ‘No problem’ with exclusion from regional force

Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the M23 rebels and won't settle for Rwanda’s participation within the regional pressure.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame addresses a information convention to conclude the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda on June 25, 2022 [File: Jean Bizimana/Reuters]

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame mentioned he didn't thoughts his nation being excluded from a regional army pressure battling rebels within the Democratic Republic of Congo, eradicating a possible stumbling block to the initiative.

The seven nations of the East African Group (EAC) agreed in April to arrange a joint pressure to attempt to finish many years of bloodshed in jap components of Congo. Congo welcomed the plan, however mentioned it will not settle for the involvement of Rwanda, which it accuses of backing rebels – an accusation that Rwanda denies.

“I've no drawback with that. We're not begging anybody that we take part within the pressure,” Kagame informed Rwanda’s state broadcaster on Monday.

“If anyone’s coming from wherever, excluding Rwanda, however will present the answer that we’re all searching for, why would I've an issue?” Kagame requested within the wide-ranging interview.

Congo has accused Rwanda of supporting the M23 insurgent group, which has been waging its most sustained offensive in Congo’s jap borderlands since capturing huge swathes of territory in 2012-2013.

Rwanda denies supporting the rebels and in flip accuses Congo’s military of firing into Rwandan territory and of preventing alongside the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group run by ethnic Hutus who fled Rwanda after collaborating within the 1994 genocide.

The EAC has referred to as on native armed teams to affix a political course of to resolve their grievances or “be dealt with militarily”, the workplace of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, who's the chairman of the EAC, mentioned in April.

Current makes an attempt to cease the violence militarily have confirmed unsuccessful, and in some circumstances backfired, safety analysts and human rights teams say.

Regardless of billions of dollars spent on one of many United Nations’ largest peacekeeping forces, greater than 120 insurgent teams proceed to function throughout massive swathes of east Congo virtually twenty years after the official finish of the central African nation’s civil wars.