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General Kazura spearheads Kigali's continental security diplomacy

Jean-Bosco Kazura.
Jean-Bosco Kazura. © MINUSMA/Flickr
From Bangui to Maputo, Paul Kagame has turned Rwanda's armed forces into a powerful tool of his African diplomacy, wielded adeptly by his army commander Jean-Bosco Kazura and his police chief Dan Munyuza. [...] (667 words)
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Rwandan Chief of Staff Jean-Bosco Kazura is currently holding a series of meetings with African chiefs of staff (photo from 2013). © UN Mission in Mali/Flickr
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AFRICA RWANDA Defence Diplomacy 10/12/2021

How Kigali is exporting its military expertise across Africa 

By participating in Mozambican operations, the Rwandan army, already busy in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, has become one of Kigali's key exports. President Paul Kagame relies on a structure geared to external operations, and on allies beyond Africa.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi receiving his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on June 25, 2021. © DRC Presidency/Twitter
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DRC Diplomacy 27/08/2021

Félix Tshisekedi's diplomacy: great international expectations but with neither troops nor resources 

In Berlin today at the invitation of Angela Merkel, the DRC president is using every available means to pull his country out of diplomatic isolation. Rather than relying on a diplomatic corps that was largely inherited from his predecessor Joseph Kabila, he has preferred to rely on a group of loyalists from within the presidency.
Rwanda's president Paul Kagame with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni. © Xinhua News Agency/via Latin America News Agency/Reuters
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DRC RWANDA UGANDA Mining 23/08/2021

DRC gold at heart of Museveni and Kagame's new showdown 

Rwanda and Uganda are engaged in a tug of war over who will host the main transit route for gold mined in the DRC before it is shipped out of Africa. Both countries want the lucrative business for themselves and are hoping to force Kinshasa to choose between them, with Kigali in the lead.

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