Mr Kagame is close to Andrew Mitchell, the International Development
Secretary, who takes Conservative volunteers to Rwanda every year on “Project
Umubano”, a summer aid scheme. Mr Kagame addressed the Conservative
party conference in 2007 and his country will receive Pounds 80 million of
British aid this year.
The last Rwanda-sponsored rebellion in Congo ended with a peace agreement
incorporating the insurgents into the national army in 2009. “What we
are looking at now is the first stages of the unravelling of that peace deal,”
said a Western analyst working in Congo. “That deal was extremely
significant, and in the same vein, the fact that Rwanda is now seen again to
be supporting another armed group in eastern Congo has to be equally as
significant as a move in the wrong direction.”
Louise Mushikiwabo, the Rwandan foreign minister, denied that her country was
helping Congo’s rebels, describing the UN report as “categorically false”.
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