However the refusal by Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi to attend an emergency summit called by Ruto as the current Chair of the EAC and a regional split between support for Rwanda and Congo-K suggests that the EAC vote will fragment (AC Vol 66 No 3 After seizing Goma Kigali's rebels head south)...

He then vowed to visit his ‘big brother' Félix Tshisekedi Congo-K's president and called Rwanda's Paul Kagame his ‘uncle' and a ‘man of peace' a reference to the collapsed peace talks between the two over the Kigali-backed M23 militia's incursions in eastern Congo-K...

Nangaa may be betting that growing Congolese opposition to President Félix Tshisekedi's efforts to finagle a third term in power could translate despite widespread Congolese hostility towards Rwanda into popular support for the AFC(AC Vol 66 No 2 Tshisekedi eyes a third term)...

However eyebrows were raised in March 2024 when the EU announced a ‘minerals-access' agreement with Rwanda despite Rwanda's limited mineral resources and Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi labelling the deal with Kigali as ‘a provocation' (AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...

Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country's cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening conflict in the east with the M23 militia and by extension its sponsor Rwanda...

Congolese businessmen close to President Félix Tshisekedi are trying to negotiate a regime security and arms deal between Kinshasa and the remnants of the Wagner Group now under Pavel Prigozhin son of the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in a plane crash on 23 August 2023...

Both presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame were present – and he held lengthy private meetings with each (Dispatches 8/10/24 Macron fails to broker Kinshasa-Kigali talks at Francophone summit)...