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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Kigali to end his three-nation trip to Africa. Rwanda was his last stop, where he articulated Washington’s new strategy for engaging with sub-Saharan African nations as “equal partners”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Kigali to end his three-nation trip to Africa. Rwanda was his last stop, where he articulated Washington’s new strategy for engaging with sub-Saharan African nations as “equal partners”.
Blinken took part in several meetings with members of the Rwandan government, discussing issues such as democracy, human rights concerns, and the ongoing tensions between Rwanda and the DRC.
Quoting some UN sources, there were media reports that Rwandan troops had attacked soldiers inside the DRC and aided the M23, which has captured swathes of territory in eastern DRC in recent months. It is still not known whether those issues were figured in the bilateral discussions.
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Blinken’s trip to Africa’s Great Lakes region, came at a difficult time with the Democratic Republic of Congo accusing Rwanda of backing the M23 rebels and Kigali accusing Kinshasa of collaborating with the FDLR rebels. Despite a meeting between Kagame and Tshisekedi in Angola last month, ties between the neighbours remain strained.
