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[Rwanda Forum] L'aveuglement de la France pour plaire à Kagame : Quand vous ne respectez pas les Français, ils vous respectent : le paradoxe des relations Rwanda–France

L'aveuglement de la France pour plaire à Kagame :

Quand vous ne respectez pas les Français, ils vous respectent : le paradoxe des relations Rwanda–France

Introduction : La relation diplomatique la plus déroutante de l'Afrique contemporaine

Peu de relations en diplomatie africano-européenne sont aussi paradoxales, émotionnellement chargées et politiquement révélatrices que celle entre le Rwanda et la France. Depuis trois décennies, le Rwanda est l'État africain le plus hostile à l'égard de la France — l'accusant de complicité dans le génocide, humiliant les dirigeants français, démantelant les institutions françaises, expulsant l'influence française, remplaçant la langue française et dénigrant à répétition la France sur la scène internationale.

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France's Blindness to Please Kagame:

When You Don't Respect the French, They Respect You: The Paradox of Rwanda–France Relations

Introduction: The Most Puzzling Diplomatic Relationship in Contemporary Africa

Few relationships in African–European diplomacy are as paradoxical, emotionally charged, and politically revealing as the one between Rwanda and France. For three decades, Rwanda has been the most hostile African state toward France—accusing it of complicity in genocide, humiliating French leaders, dismantling French institutions, expelling French influence, replacing the French language, and repeatedly denigrating France on the international stage.

Yet France has responded not with retaliation, pressure or distance—but with apologies, concessions, aid packages, political support and military cooperation.

https://africacontext.blogspot.com/2025/11/frances-blindness-to-please-kagame.html

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[Rwanda Forum] La malhonnêteté de l'Union européenne envers la RDC :

La malhonnêteté de l'Union européenne envers la RDC :

Comment l'accord européen sur les minerais avec le Rwanda récompense le pillage, alimente les conflits et sape la souveraineté africaine.

Introduction : La richesse d'un continent, la trahison d'un autre

Depuis plus de trois décennies, la République démocratique du Congo se trouve au cœur de l'une des crises les plus violentes, les plus meurtrières et les plus méconnues au monde. Bien que possédant certaines des ressources minérales les plus précieuses de la planète — indispensables à la technologie moderne et à la transition énergétique mondiale — le pays reste ravagé par la guerre, l'ingérence étrangère, les déplacements massifs, le pillage économique et une urgence humanitaire sans fin. La tragédie congolaise ne s'explique pas par le manque de ressources, mais par leur abondance. La richesse du Congo a attiré des acteurs prédateurs, voisins comme internationaux, et a alimenté une économie parallèle où la souffrance de millions de personnes est silencieusement convertie en profit pour des gouvernements, des entreprises et des groupes armés.

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EU Dishonesty Toward the DRC: How Europe's Minerals Agreement With Rwanda Rewards Theft, Fuels Conflict and Undermines African Sovereignty

Introduction: A Continent's Wealth, A Continent's Betrayal

For more than three decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the epicentre of one of the world's most violent, deadly and underreported crises. Despite holding some of the planet's most valuable mineral resources—minerals essential to modern technology and the global green transition—Congo remains a country ravaged by conflict, foreign interference, mass displacement, economic plunder and a humanitarian emergency. The tragedy is not rooted in scarcity, but in abundance. Congo's wealth has consistently attracted predatory interests, both neighbouring and international, and has generated a shadow economy in which the suffering of millions is quietly converted into profit for governments, corporations and armed groups.

It is within this context that the European Union's decision to sign an agreement with the Rwandan government intended to secure the supply of critical materials used in smartphones and electric cars must be understood. The agreement, promoted as part of the EU's strategic plan to diversify supply chains and reduce reliance on China, was announced as a partnership for development, transparency and sustainability. Yet the evidence available to the EU before the agreement was signed painted a very different picture. Rwanda is not a major producer of these minerals. It is, and has been for decades, a central redistribution hub for minerals smuggled from the Democratic Republic of Congo. These minerals are extracted under conditions of extreme violence, often by militias or rebel groups, transported illegally across the border, laundered through Rwanda's certification system and exported to international markets as supposedly clean, conflict-free products.

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[Rwanda Forum] Apple sued over conflict minerals linked to DRC and Rwanda

Apple sued over conflict minerals linked to DRC and Rwanda

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[Rwanda Forum] Pourquoi le Rapport Mapping des Nations Unies sur la RDC a été enterré :

Pourquoi le Rapport Mapping des Nations Unies sur la RDC a été enterré :

Obstruction des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni, défaillances de l'ONU, silence de l'Union africaine et marginalisation des victimes africaines**

Introduction

Publié en 2010, le Rapport Mapping du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme fut l'une des enquêtes les plus vastes jamais réalisées sur les crimes commis en Afrique centrale. Couvrant la période de 1993 à 2003, il documente 617 incidents de violations graves des droits humains : massacres, violences sexuelles, exécutions sommaires, tortures, déplacements forcés et attaques systématiques contre des civils. Le rapport avance même que certaines attaques contre les réfugiés hutus rwandais et les populations hutues congolaises pourraient constituer des actes de génocide si un tribunal compétent en apportait la preuve.

Pourtant, malgré sa gravité, le rapport a été discrètement enterré. Ses recommandations – création de mécanismes judiciaires, commissions vérité, poursuites des responsables – n'ont jamais été mises en œuvre. Cette inaction ne s'explique pas seulement par la lenteur bureaucratique. Elle est le résultat d'un enchevêtrement d'intérêts géopolitiques, de pressions diplomatiques, de calculs régionaux, d'inerties institutionnelles et d'un profond désintérêt du monde lorsque les victimes sont africaines.

Ce texte analyse les raisons pour lesquelles ce rapport a été étouffé : le rôle déterminant des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni dans la protection de leurs alliés rwandais et ougandais ; l'incapacité du gouvernement congolais à exiger justice ; la négligence de l'Union africaine ; l'auto-censure des Nations Unies ; et enfin un facteur essentiel souvent ignoré : quand les victimes sont africaines, la mobilisation internationale est faible, voire inexistante. Si les mêmes crimes s'étaient produits en Europe – comme en Ukraine – la réaction mondiale aurait été immédiate et massive.

Le résultat est tragique : un des pires massacres de la fin du XXᵉ siècle demeure impuni, et son ombre continue d'alimenter l'instabilité dans toute la région des Grands Lacs.

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Why the UN Mapping Report on the DRC Was Buried:

Western Complicity, UN Cowardice, African Silence, and the Devaluation of African Lives

Introduction: A Crime Covered Up

The 2010 UN Mapping Report should have changed everything. It didn't.

Covering the period from 1993 to 2003, this damning investigation documented 617 serious crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—mass killings, systematic sexual violence, torture, forced displacement, and the deliberate targeting of civilians. Most explosively, it concluded that atrocities committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) against Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutu populations could constitute acts of genocide if proven before a competent court.

Yet the report was buried. Deliberately. Systematically. Shamelessly.

No tribunal was established. No perpetrators were prosecuted. No justice was delivered. The recommendations for accountability mechanisms and truth-seeking processes were quietly shelved.

https://africacontext.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-un-mapping-report-on-drc-was-buried.html

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Re: [Rwanda Forum] Nyakwigendera Gen. Kabarebe wari umaze ukwezi afunzwe mw'ibanga yitabye Imana | Yaguye muri Kashu le 23/11/25.

Attention,

Avant de diffuser une telle info il faudrait attendre la confirmation de la part du Gouvernement. Il était quand même encore membre de ce Gouvernement. Sinon vous ne serait plus crédible !

Le mercredi 26 novembre 2025 à 04:40:15 UTC+1, 'Nzi Nink' via Rwanda Forum <rwandaforum@googlegroups.com> a écrit :

Nyakwigendera Gen. Kabarebe wari umaze ukwezi afunzwe mw'ibanga yitabye Imana | Yaguye muri Kashu le 23/11/25.

https://youtu.be/kmiBAXMXXRM?si=QQUPXayOrgreSbVQ

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[Rwanda Forum] Nyakwigendera Gen. Kabarebe wari umaze ukwezi afunzwe mw'ibanga yitabye Imana | Yaguye muri Kashu le 23/11/25.

Nyakwigendera Gen. Kabarebe wari umaze ukwezi afunzwe mw'ibanga yitabye Imana | Yaguye muri Kashu le 23/11/25.

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[Rwanda Forum] In DR Congo’s Uvira, pro-government militia actions show abuses aren’t just an M23 problem

In DR Congo's Uvira, pro-government militia actions show abuses aren't just an M23 problem

"People were whipped, arrested, some died in detention."

Life for people living under occupation by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group – which has seized vast swathes of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo – has been marked by widespread human rights abuses and economic turmoil.

Yet in the lakeside city of Uvira, suffocating daily pressures and abuses come not from the rebels but from the army and, especially, pro-government militias, who claim to protect the city and fight the M23.

"Their bombs are affecting the entire population, when they should be aimed at the enemy," said a local resident whose neighbour lost a child due to stray gunfire two months ago and whose name is being withheld to protect them from reprisals. "We just want peace."

With more than 700,000 inhabitants and sitting on the border with Burundi, Uvira is the last major stronghold of the Congolese government in South Kivu – one of two provinces that the M23 and Rwandan troops are currently occupying.

For months, fear has hung over the town as residents braced for what many assumed was inevitable: that the M23 would push south and seize the city, triggering more humanitarian upheaval in a conflict that has already displaced millions.

Yet even without the M23's arrival, residents say life in Uvira has been incredibly difficult, largely due to the presence of pro-government militias known as Wazalendo ("patriots" in Kiswahili), who are drawn from numerous local armed groups.

Wazalendo groups are supposed to act as army reservists and proxies against the M23, yet in Uvira they have taken over state functions and even clashed with the army, amid mutual accusations of spying for the rebels and abandoning front lines.

The militias are also accused of targeting Uvira's Banyamulenge population – Congolese Tutsis in South Kivu who are often perceived as supporting the Tutsi-commanded M23 – in acts of harassment and intimidation.

Army personnel have denied any responsibility for managing the conduct of Wazalendo militias – who are also accused of abuses by human rights groups and the UN – even as the military supplies them with weapons and money.

So militarised is Uvira that even without the presence of the M23, a displaced woman – a mother of six who fled to the city in February – said she hears gunfire every night from the makeshift shelter where her family now lives.

"We came here hoping to find peace, but there is no peace," she said. "We don't even have tarpaulin sheets. We need plastic bags to build a shelter, and we can only eat if we wash dishes or do laundry for families."

More at:

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2025/11/25/dr-congo-uvira-pro-government-militia-abuses-m23?utm_source=The+New+Humanitarian&utm_campaign=ebea6c3f75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_020_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d842d98289-ebea6c3f75-15724689

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