Louise Mushikiwabo

The Rwandan incumbent Louise Mushikiwabo running for a third four-year term has earned widespread respect for her diplomatic poise and her capable overhaul of OIF structures and finances including pursuing overdue membership fees and mobilising African Development Bank support to expand digital sector vocational training for young people...

The election of the Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie in Paris will also be a pitched battle between Kinshasa and Kigali after Tshisekedi nominated Juliana Lumumba daughter of Congo-K's first elected Prime Minister and continental liberation hero Patrice Lumumba to challenge Rwanda's former Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo...

That line has won over member states in the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie whose secretary-general and former foreign minister of Rwanda Louise Mushikiwabo explained that fellow member states opted not to suspend Gabon because soon after the August 2023 coup the new Libreville regime came to make its case...

Third Kagame has mostly secured silence from critics in France through Rwanda's return to la Francophonie – its former Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo now heads the organisation's secretariat in Paris – at a time when French influence in Africa has been slipping...

The exception is Rwanda formerly a Francophone state which is now a member both of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) based in Paris which is headed by Rwanda's former foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo and the Anglophone Commonwealth headquartered in London...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and European Council President Charles Michel joined the talks by video-link as did African Union commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Secretary General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie Louise Mushikiwabo...

He received Rwandan foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo accompanied by former African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka in Kinshasa on 25 July and promised to support her bid to become president of the Organisation International de la Francophonie (AC Vol 59 No 14 Shaky start for Sahel force)...

Macron is also backing Kagame's lobbying for Africa's Free Trade Area and the candidacy of his Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo for the secretary generalship of the International Organisation of La Francophonie...

Protests came thick and fast not only from foreign diplomats including the United States Ambassador Erica Barks-Ruggles but from within the RPF including Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo...

Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo has expressed her concern about alleged links between the Imbonerakure militia associated with Nkurunziza and the anti-Kagame Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda which are based in Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 55 No 14 Puzzle of FDLR intentions)...