{"id":53974,"date":"2025-04-21T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-faure-gnassingbe-of-togo-visits-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:35:32","slug":"president-faure-gnassingbe-of-togo-visits-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-faure-gnassingbe-of-togo-visits-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"President Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 of Togo visits Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astatement from the President Office described the nexus of this meeting. \u201cThis afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame received President Faure Essozimna Gnassingb\u00e9 of Togo who is serving as the appointed AU mediator in the conflict in Eastern DRC. They discussed the progress of the regional processes towards achieving durable peace in the region,\u201d the statement read<\/p>\n

According to the Office of the President of Togo, the visit began on April 21, 2025. \u201cThe Head of State will engage in discussions with his Rwandan counterpart concerning the well-known causes of the war in Eastern DRC, its consequences, and the role various regional leaders are playing to resolve the crisis,\u201d The statement reads.<\/p>\n

The statement also emphasized that Togo prioritizes constructive dialogue and reconciliation as a path to achieving a sustainable solution to the conflict affecting the Great Lakes Region.<\/p>\n

It further noted that President Gnassingb\u00e9 reaffirmed his commitment to working with other partners in pursuit of lasting peace between Rwanda and the DRC. \u201cThis will also help strengthen cooperation and improve bilateral relations between the two countries,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n

On March 24, 2025, the Office of the President of Angola announced that President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o would no longer serve as the mediator in the Rwanda-DRC conflict. Instead, he would focus on broader continental priorities rather than regional affairs.<\/p>\n

President Louren\u00e7o subsequently presented the candidacy of Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 to the leadership of the African Union (AU) as his preferred successor for the role of mediator. The AU reviewed the proposal.
\nIn early April 2025, the AU expressed its support for President Louren\u00e7o\u2019s recommendation that President Gnassingb\u00e9 take over as mediator in the dialogue between Rwanda and the DRC.<\/p>\n

On April 12, 2025, the AU General Assembly officially confirmed President Gnassingb\u00e9 as the new, permanent mediator tasked with helping Rwanda and the DRC resolve their ongoing tensions.<\/p>\n

President Gnassingb\u00e9 has made several visits to Rwanda in recent years to discuss a range of topics, including security and Pan-African cooperation.<\/p>\n

Relations between Rwanda and the DRC have deteriorated in recent years, largely due to the conflict in Eastern DRC. Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the M23\/AFC coalition, an allegation Rwanda vehemently denies.<\/p>\n

In turn, Rwanda accuses the DRC of supporting and collaborating with the FDLR, a terrorist group composed of remnants of perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and who continue to pose a threat to Rwandan security.<\/p>\n

President Gnassingb\u00e9\u2019s current visit follows another official trip he made to Kigali in January 2025, during which both nations agreed to further strengthen their bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n

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President of Togo, Faure Essozimna Gnassingb\u00e9, is on a working visit to Rwanda, where he held talks with President Paul Kagame. The discussions fall in line with President Gnassingb\u00e9\u2019s newly assigned role as a mediator between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000086159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53974","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":2000086159,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-587.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53974","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=53974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53974"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53974"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}