Rwanda: President Paul Kagame Assures There Are No Rwandan Soldiers In The DRC

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, October 14, 2019. (Illustrative photo) SIA KAMBOU / AFP

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The Rwandan president has denied accusations that Rwandan soldiers recently participated in operations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Paul Kagame responded to these accusations on Monday, April 27, at a press conference held by videoconference.

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President Paul Kagame assures that there are no Rwandan soldiers present in the DRC. It is the response to members of civil society and the Congolese opposition who denounce the participation of the Rwandan army alongside the Congolese armed forces (Fardc) in operations against Rwandan rebels in eastern DRC .  

According to information gathered by RFI, the UN group of experts has also recently sent a request to Kinshasa on this subject, claiming to have information relating to the participation, in recent operations, of " foreign armed forces ".  es ”against national and foreign armed groups in North and South Kivu.

There is not a single soldier of the Rwandan Defense Forces who visited this territory of South Kivu. Not one. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo knows the facts. He knows that the Rwandan Defense Forces are not there. Fortunately, the Congolese government has agreed to work in collaboration with the countries of the region, its neighbors, in an attempt to resolve this problem of armed groups which has been going on for decades. We provide information to our partners in the region, including the United Nations, about these activities. We have also given information to the Congolese government and they have started to act on the basis of some of the information we have given them, because they have had the opportunity to verify it and see what is growing in North Kivu. And they have started operations against these groups such as the FDLR and others, because they have multiple names,   "he said.

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