Boulos pressured Rwandan President Paul Kagame both directly and via the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani who mediated direct talks in Doha between Kagame and Tshisekedi on 18 March (AC Vol 66 No 6 M23 militia blocks peace talks until Brussels drops sanctions)...

Gachagua has also accused Ruto who is known to have close ties to Rwanda's Paul Kagame of fostering connections with the Kigali-backed M23 militia in eastern Congo-Kinshasa and profiting from the gold trade...

Meanwhile his son and heir apparent General Muhoozi Kainerugaba enthusiastically backs Rwanda's Paul Kagame and the M23 portraying them as liberating forces across Africa (AC Vol 66 No 3 The Muhoozi succession recasts Kampala's regional policy)...

These investments could be jeopardised if the UAE government openly backs Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...

But later that day Rwanda's President Paul Kagame arrived in Doha to meet Tshisekedi for talks hosted by Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani ‘to ease the situation' in eastern Congo...

Nawfal a right-wing businessman and journalist favoured by Musk recently conducted a sycophantic interview with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and has repeatedly posted abusive negative tweets about the Congolese government...

The perception that Ruto who also chairs the East African Community is an ally of Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame undoubtedly cost him a handful of votes...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is moving pieces at will around the regional chessboard in this deadliest of tournaments...

One of the frontrunners for that post is Peter Pham a former US Special Envoy to the Great Lakes who knows both Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Congo's Félix Tshisekedi well...

Defeat for Odinga would be an embarrassment for Kenya's President William Ruto who has positioned himself as the heir to Rwanda's Paul Kagame as the next champion of pan-Africanism and AU integration and has campaigned heavily for his former rival...

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his troops out of eastern Congo-K and halt support for the Tutsi M23 militia that recently captured of the city of Goma where thousands died (AC Vol 66 No 3 After seizing Goma Kigali's rebels head south)...

Aside from Germany and Belgium whose new Foreign Minister Bernard Quintin was vetoed as EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region by President Paul Kagame the Tshisekedi government has few reliable or influential allies...