{"id":53030,"date":"2025-02-17T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nduhungirehe-refutes-drc-pm-s-misleading-au-allegations-against-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:40:05","slug":"nduhungirehe-refutes-drc-pm-s-misleading-au-allegations-against-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nduhungirehe-refutes-drc-pm-s-misleading-au-allegations-against-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Nduhungirehe refutes DRC PM’s misleading AU allegations against Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suminwa, representing President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi at the AU summit for Heads of State and government, told reporters that African nations had previously remained neutral, but for the first time, they had confirmed that Rwanda was an aggressor towards DRC.<\/p>\n

She also stated that the AU had endorsed resolutions made by the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State, including halting the fighting, requesting M23 to reopen Goma\u2019s international airport, and resuming the Luanda dialogue.<\/p>\n

In response, Minister Nduhungirehe called on Suminwa to stop using terms like \u201cfor the first time\u201d or \u201cnow\u201d when discussing Rwanda\u2019s actions, noting that the claims made in those instances were false.<\/p>\n

He reminded that on October 18, 2024, Suminwa said in Brussels, \u201cFor the first time, Rwanda has agreed [in Luanda] to show a plan to withdraw over 4,000 troops.\u201d Nduhungirehe labeled this statement as a lie.<\/p>\n

He further clarified that during the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African nations did not state that Rwanda was an aggressor with troops in DRC. \u201cThat\u2019s another blatant lie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Minister Nduhungirehe explained that at the AU summit held on February 14, 2025, no country, except DRC, made such accusations against Rwanda. Even South Africa refrained from calling Rwanda an aggressor, mentioning only that \u201cM23 is supported by foreign troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that in the AU summit resolutions, which Suminwa left before they were adopted, no mention was made of Rwanda or the demand for its troops to withdraw from DRC.<\/p>\n

The DRC government has been engaged in conflict with the M23 rebel group since November 2021.
\nHowever, AU leaders have emphasized that a lasting solution to the conflict can only be achieved through inclusive political dialogue, as confirmed in the EAC and SADC meeting on February 8 2025.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe, has rejected claims made by the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Judith Suminwa Tuluka, that African Union (AU) member states have confirmed Rwanda\u2019s involvement with armed forces in DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000081767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081767,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-302.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53030"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}