The Lobito Corridor from Angola to Zambia's copperfields was the first example cited by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels in October a two-day event attended by South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwanda's president Paul Kagame demonstrating that large-scale infrastructural investments attract interest...

The plan was to expedite negotiations for the mineral-security accord then Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame would sign a peace treaty in the White House within a month...

It followed Chapo's two-day summit with President Paul Kagame in Kigali at the end of August...

Boulos says deals in both sectors will be signed at the White House in July when Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame are expected to attend a grand ceremony...

Yet Rwanda's President Paul Kagame refuses to admit publicly that he has any troops in Congo or that his government has any command and control over the M23 militia...

Lourenço may be reluctant to mediate in CAR after the dramatic failure of his mediation between Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame...

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...