The Rwanda National Police together with students from Jardin Des Tout-Petits.
Moments like these remind us that building trust starts with the youngest hearts.
On 29 January 2025, a virtual ministerial meeting of the East African Community (EAC) was convened. The only item on the agenda was the situation in eastern DRC, but the ONLY minister who didn't show up was that of DRC. The reason that was given to us is that the DRC Minister of Regional Cooperation, who had previously confirmed his attendance, eventually connected.... to the wrong link!
On 8 February 2025, a joint EAC-SADC ministerial meeting was convened in Dar Es Salaam, again on the situation in eastern DRC. 14 countries were invited (6 from EAC, 6 from SADC, and two with a dual membership - DRC and Tanzania). 12 Ministers travelled all the way from their respective capitals to attend the meeting, but DRC, the only country on the agenda, was represented by just an ambassador!
Here again, we were given an excuse...even two! At the beginning of the meeting, we were informed, by the DRC Ambassador to Botswana, that the DRC Foreign Minister was "on her way", but an hour later, the version had changed: she had in fact a "technical problem with her plane"!
But we now know that the Foreign Minister of DRC was all this time in Europe, begging for sanctions against Rwanda.
"African solutions to African problems," we say?
Not for Madam Wagner! It is rather German, Belgian, and British sanctions against Rwanda...to DRC problems!
AFC/M23 alerte sur la crise humanitaire en RDC : atrocités des FARDC à Bukavu, désinformation persistante, et retour volontaire des déplacés en zones libérées. Priorité à la protection des civils. Appel à la MONUSCO pour cesser les fausses accusations. #RDC#AFCM23