Louise Mushikiwabo

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)...

Candidates frequently cited as possible contenders include the Secretary General of the East African Community Richard Sezibera; Donald Kaberuka whose second and final term as President of the African Development Bank ends this year; and the shrewd Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo...

Both the head of the UN peacekeeping mission Martin Kobler and Israel's foreign secretary Avigdor Lieberman were in Kigali and Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo flew to London just two days later...

Briefing journalists after the ceremony Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo refused to play down the attack on France: 'What you sometimes see can only be described as diplomatic malaise and it will probably remain like this unless France accepts where it erred or until France recognises that this country will not ignore history just to have a relationship with Paris ' she said...