The bill for the Rwandans' expensively equipped assistance will grow and no-one believes claims from Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Nyusi that it is gratis...

On 19 December Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and Senegal's President Macky Sall the present and next holders of the AU presidency respectively joined Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels for talks with European Council President Charles Michel to lay the groundwork for an Africa-Europe summit on 17-18 February...

In recent weeks Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni signed deals with Tshisekedi covering investment and gold mining for Kigali and over 200 kilometres of new road construction between Congo-K and Uganda...

He has rejected the call of all Ethiopia's neighbours with the exception of Eritrea to negotiate a solution to the conflict with Tigray including both President Yoweri Museveni and President Paul Kagame on Abiy's visit to Uganda and Rwanda at the end of August...

Meanwhile as a cold war between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Paul Kagame continues both sides are seeking to strengthen trade ties with their neighbours...

' Rwanda's tourist industry has been decimated by the pandemic with some international officials particularly in the United States sounding alarms about the authoritarian direction of President Paul Kagame's government...