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Geneva talks put Rwanda-DRC peace deal to the test (opens the original)
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Officials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are due to reconvene in Geneva on September 16 and 17 for talks on the implementation of the 2025 Washington Accords. The two-day meeting of the Joint Security Coordination Mechanism (JSCM) will bring together representatives of the two countries, with mediators from the United States, Qatar, Togo and the African Union Commission. The mechanism was established to monitor and coordinate the implementation of security commitments
A kingdom within a republic: Inside Uganda’s Buganda (opens the original)
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Kampala, Uganda – Uganda became independent from British colonial rule in 1962, but independence did not mean the end of its traditional kingdoms. The new republic inherited a political landscape in which old monarchies and the modern state had to find a way to exist alongside each other. More than six decades later, that history is still visible in Buganda, where a centuries-old monarchy exists within the modern Ugandan state. The Buganda Kingdom is headed by a king, known as the Kabaka, and ha
Hutu and Tutsi: The history behind the divide (opens the original)
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For more than a century, Hutu and Tutsi in Africa’s Great Lakes region have been described as two distinct ethnic groups, and sometimes even as separate races. The identities existed before European colonial rule, but they did not always carry the rigid meaning they acquired later. Colonial rule, particularly in Rwanda and Burundi, changed how they were classified and understood, helping turn social distinctions into fixed ethnic categories. Those identities were later drawn into struggles over
Rwanda accuses DR Congo of supporting an armed group on its soil (opens the original)
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has again blamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the continuing conflict in the country’s east, linking Rwanda’s involvement in the conflict to the continued presence of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan Hutu armed group, on Congolese territory. He said Rwanda would continue to take whatever measures it considers necessary to protect its security. Speaking at a news conference in Kigali, Kagame reiterated that the FD
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