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@IGIHE Propaganda

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@TYCOONMULA @ntambaragarleon @CityofKigali Kuki itahaba? I Kigali se nimwijuru?

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[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

There is one central reason President @PaulKagame and former DRC President Kabila are working against the DRC, and it is called money. To be more specific, the #DRC’s vast mineral wealth. The shocking thing is that, as we have seen before, they are prepared to kill thousands, if not millions, of innocent Congolese fathers, mothers, and children to get it.

As the death toll rises, disease and hunger spread, and millions become refugees, the crisis will become a problem for Congress and President @realDonaldTrump. The world will once again turn to the U.S. for humanitarian relief and refugee resettlement. It would save lives and cost far less for the U.S. to go after Kagame and #Kabila now than to deal with the catastrophe they will unleash.

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@mugabopaulla Day dreaming

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@Sophie_Mokoena @F1 Correction. The land of thousands lies

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[Jean-François Le Drian @JF_LE_DRIAN]

Formula 1 is lending its global platform to Rwanda’s image-management strategy.

Sportwashing, sportwashing, and sportwashing again and again.

Yes the 10-year African Grand Prix deal is straightforward sports washing.

It arrives while UN expert reports document substantial Rwandan Defence Forces support—command, troops, training, and logistics—to the M23 in eastern Congo, linked to advances that have involved summary executions, sexual violence, forced recruitment and other abuses that may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The DRC has brought a case against Rwanda at the ICJ. Rwanda denies direct involvement.

At home the record is consistent with a tightly controlled system: total electoral dominance, restricted opposition and media space, and recurring allegations of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, Freedom House “Not Free”).

This fits a wider pattern of culture washing and dance washing.

Visit Rwanda campaigns, tourism branding, and the regular international deployment of traditional Intore and other dance troupes project reconciliation, order and hospitality.

The performances are real; they also help keep cross-border military activity and domestic political constraints in the background.

F1 becomes the highest-visibility layer of the same effort.

Even if sport already races in states with severe human-rights criticism, that does not make the Rwanda partnership neutral.

It is a commercial and calendar decision that supplies prestige and soft power to a government facing documented accusations of aggression and of suppressing dissent.

The branding is already active.

The scrutiny is not.