{"id":56145,"date":"2025-11-03T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tshisekedi-renews-hostile-rhetoric-against-rwanda-with-annexation-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:09:47","slug":"tshisekedi-renews-hostile-rhetoric-against-rwanda-with-annexation-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tshisekedi-renews-hostile-rhetoric-against-rwanda-with-annexation-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tshisekedi renews hostile rhetoric against Rwanda with annexation allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tshisekedi made this claim during an address to the Congolese diaspora in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, November 1, 2025. <\/p>\n

He told his citizens that Rwanda, under President Paul Kagame, is plotting to divide the Democratic Republic of Congo, with plans to annex the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis goal is to divide our country and annex it, particularly the eastern region, which is rich in minerals and agricultural land,\u201d he stated. <\/p>\n

Despite Tshisekedi\u2019s allegations, Rwanda has consistently shown that it has no intention of looting Congo or annexing its territories.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, President Paul Kagame reaffirmed that the security of Rwanda is the primary concern, not the natural resources of the DRC.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with Marioo Nawfall, the President emphasized that Rwanda is not one of the countries exploiting the mineral resources of the DRC. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the list of hundreds of entities from China, Europe, U.S., Canada, and so on, including all of us in the region, who are interested in the minerals in Congo, Rwanda would come as a 100th. We would come at the bottom,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

President Kagame further clarified that Rwanda\u2019s primary concern is its security, not minerals. <\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we are not assured of our security, we can\u2019t be thinking about minerals in that situation. That would be the last thing on our minds,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Tshisekedi continues to fuel hostile rhetoric against Rwanda, despite the peace agreements signed between both countries in June, raising doubts about his commitment to their implementation.<\/p>\n

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The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, F\u00e9lix Antoine Tshisekedi, has renewed hostile rhetoric against Rwanda, with misleading accusations of a supposed grand plan by Rwanda to annex parts of his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000097144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56145","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":2000097144,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8786be3b67aa485484d1b39de7c9f2f5-2.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56145","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000097144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56145"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56145"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}