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Rwanda has consistently maintained that the long-term deployment of our security forces in joint counterterrorism operations in Mozambique requires a sustainable financing framework. Having so far shouldered the bulk of the financial burden of these operations, a transition to more equitable funding is a strategic necessity. This common-sense position is a matter of public record and is unrelated to news reports from anonymous sources to @LeMonde’s @Phjacque in Brussels, where opposition to Rwanda's security cooperation with Mozambique has never been quiet, or from @WSJ’s @NicholasBariyo’s baseless speculations and unethical reporting. Bariyo – it is also a matter of public record that a Rwandan delegation was in Washington DC in March for scheduled meetings at the State Department in the context of the ongoing Washington Peace Agreement, a statement was issued after these meetings. No comments of the sort you mention, in one of several hallucinations you report, were uttered by our ambassador to the U.S. Rwanda has not and will not seek additional funds from the European Peace Facility, that is a matter for Mozambique. Rwanda's deployment requires sustainable financing, and it is up to the host government and its partners with major investments in Cabo Delgado to provide for that, as it has always been. Otherwise, Rwanda is satisfied to have been able to contribute together with our Mozambican allies in defeating the terrorists, securing the residents of Cabo Delgado and allowing for investments to roll out. Both the @WSJ and @LeMonde also get the numbers wrong. Current personnel numbers stand at over 6,300—significantly higher than the initial 2,000 deployed in 2021. This increase was a direct response to the expanded scope of operations and the necessity of filling the security vacuum left by the withdrawal of the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) in 2024. The bottom line is: ISIS attacks mainly victimized Mozambican civilians, and they have been the biggest beneficiaries of the joint security mission, having returned to their homes and resumed their lives. The gas investments benefit European and global energy security/interests, not Rwanda's – Rwandan forces are present in Cabo Delgado in response to the request of the Government of Mozambique for support.

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I held two conversations this week with President Ramaphosa on the situation in Eastern DRC, including earlier today. What has been said about these conversations in the media by South African officials and President Ramaphosa himself contains a lot of distortion, deliberate attacks, and even lies. If words can change so much from a conversation to a public statement, it says a lot about how these very important issues are being managed. A few important clarifications for the record: 1. The Rwanda Defence Force is an army, not a militia. 2. SAMIDRC is not a peacekeeping force, and it has no place in this situation. It was authorized by SADC as a belligerent force engaging in offensive combat operations to help the DRC Government fight against its own people, working alongside genocidal armed groups like FDLR which target Rwanda, while also threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself. 3. SAMIDRC displaced a true peacekeeping force, the East African Community Regional Force, and this contributed to the failure of the negotiation processes. 4. President Ramaphosa has never given a "warning" of any kind, unless it was delivered in his local language which I do not understand. He did ask for support to ensure the South African force has adequate electricity, food and water, which we shall help communicate. 5. President Ramaphosa confirmed to me that M23 did not kill the soldiers from South Africa, FARDC did. 6. If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator. And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day.

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Fellow South Africans, Following the recent intensification of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa has lost 13 brave soldiers who were dedicated to their mission and committed to peace. The fighting is the result of an escalation by the rebel

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@YolandeMakolo Very hard to rationalize anything these days! Global trend esp in politics is :- No need for facts,evidence or logic. Just... ' To whom it may concern' !!!!

We are not too small for anything.

“The way we have been shaped by these hardships and injustices, and it doesn’t matter by who: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING.” President Kagame

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See you on 15th July . Our candidate our President .

On today’s statement by the French Government about the situation in eastern DRC: - No one knows more about the root causes and history of the conflict in eastern DRC than France. - Additionally, the current head of UN Peacekeeping Operations is also very conversant with this history, as well as what is going on in eastern DRC, so there should be no confusion. - If the real issues at the origin of the ongoing conflict were addressed, the problem would not exist. See Rwanda’s detailed clarification of our security posture: minaffet.gov.rw/updates/news-d… (English) minaffet.gov.rw/updates/news-d… (French)

RWANDA CLARIFIES SECURITY POSTURE Link: bit.ly/3T6LCYM

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"The country can be small but the value can be very high... You can be big and small value, you can be small and high value." - President #Kagame. #RBANews #NorrskenAfricaWeek

“From Curiosity to Enjoyment, From Enjoyment to Craving, From Craving to Dependency, From Dependency to Addiction…..Let’s Talk About Alcohol.” - First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame Read the full Op-ed here: imbutofoundation.org/press-room/our… #TunyweLess

“What does it mean to be an opinion leader? You need to keep asking yourself, what do opinion leaders say? I do not want being an opinion leader to be taken lightly. We have to work for it. You have to give the right message and do the right thing. If you do the opposite, you are not among opinion leaders.” President Kagame addressing opinion leaders from Northern and Western Province.

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Kwibuka, si ijambo gusa! Kwibuka, si igihe gusa! Kwibuka, si imyaka 29 tumaze, Kwibuka ni ukubana n'abacu kuko batazimye! - JK #Kwibuka29

La mauvaise gouvernance des ressources naturelles et l’absence d’institutions efficaces à tous les niveaux en RDC depuis des décennies ne peuvent en aucune façon être imputables au Rwanda. Cette malhonnêteté de @CMbosoNkodia et des autorités congolaises est scandaleuse.

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4 years ago

Mboso : « Paul Kagame a mis en place un régime de terreur, un État voyou, qui vit des richesses du sang du peuple congolais » 7sur7.cd/2023/03/15/mbo…

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Genocide against Tutsi. Never again. Say No to Genocide Ideology #Kwibuka28