USA .Sent Mail Afghanistan Africa Union Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Baltic Nations Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia European Union Fiji Finland France Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guyana Haiti Holland Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhastan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malaysia Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia NATO Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Phillipines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United Nations Uruguay Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Western Sahara Yemen Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe

Headlines :: Marketplace :: Members (0) :: Affiliate Message

Featured Links

Kagame explains why Rwanda rejected French ambassador

Date Added: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:19:41 GMT

Study defends massive HIV/Aids funding for Rwanda

Date Added: Fri, 04 May 2012 13:40:05 GMT

Denmark Supreme Court rules to try genocide suspect

Date Added: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:53:17 GMT

Rwanda : un journaliste emprisonné pour un lapsus

Date Added: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:02:04 GMT

Rwanda : la vie de Déo Mushyayidi en danger ?

Date Added: Sun, 13 May 2012 08:13:09 GMT

Leon Mugegera to be tried in Kinyarwanda

Date Added: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:58:23 GMT

Rwanda : décès du jeune qui s'était immolé

Date Added: Sat, 12 May 2012 22:02:43 GMT

Rwanda: nouvelle semaine noire pour l'opposition

Date Added: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:17:41 GMT

Hollande Président: Quel impact pour le Rwanda ?

Date Added: Sun, 06 May 2012 20:11:41 GMT

Rwanda : Prison à vie requise pour Victoire Ingabire

Date Added: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:18:29 GMT

Results 1 - 10 of Headlines for Rwanda

Warning: mysql_result() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /var/www/vhosts/rcnetwork.net/httpdocs/Country.php on line 48 COMMENTS

Delegates from the warring Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda restarted talks July 18 in South Africa to end the DRC’s 4-year-old war. Rwanda invaded the country in 1998 and currently has 20,000 to 30,000 troops deployed in eastern DRC.

Both the United States and South Africa have stepped up their efforts to resolve the conflict. This most recent meeting is the second in as many weeks, and, though many sticking points remain, it may herald a deal between Kigali and Kinshasa.

Both sides are now negotiating from a position of relative strength. Rwanda recently won a victory in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which ruled that it could not command Kigali to withdraw its troops. However, Kinshasa also is well positioned for talks due to its relationship with the United States and the substantive debt relief it now enjoys.

The meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, will focus on the creation of a security zone between Rwanda and the DRC. Rwandan troops -- in alliance with the Rally for Congolese Democracy rebels -- entered the DRC in 1998 to topple the government in Kinshasa. Kigali justified the invasion by saying Kinshasa was supporting DRC-based Hutu Interahamwe rebels who were launching guerrilla raids into Rwanda.

Four years later the war has stalled out, and now regional and international powers are pushing for its resolution. Most important, the United States has become a chief ally of Kinshasa and is trying to advance peace talks while developing closer ties with the mineral-rich country. Mark Bellamy, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, met with DRC Foreign Minister Leonard She Okitundu in Kinshasa in mid-July and announced Washington’s intention to help "accelerate the peace process," the U.N. Integrated Regional Information Network reported July 15.

Kinshasa also recently won the endorsement of the World Bank for cancellation of 80 percent of its external debt. World Bank President James Wolfensohn, whose lending institution is influenced heavily by the United States, spent three days in Kinshasa before flying to Rwanda, The Associated Press reported July 14. Washington’s political support and economic relief will help the Congolese government advance peace talks and simultaneously give Kigali greater reason to cooperate.

Even so, several areas of contention remain. Most important, Kigali has refused to pull its troops out of eastern DRC. Its motives go back to the mid-1990s, when Rwanda’s ethnic Hutus massacred an estimated 800,000 of the country’s ethnic Tutsis. Many Hutus later fled to the DRC and remain a threat to the Tutsi government now in power in Rwanda.

Kigala wants the buffer zone drawn within the DRC, Radio France Internationale reports, while Kinshasa wants U.N. troops to patrol a security cordon along the border with Rwanda. There are almost 4,000 U.N. forces deployed in the DRC as part of a peacekeeping mission.

For the moment, neither side will give. Even so, a solution is not impossible. A buffer zone set up close to the border region and patrolled by U.N. troops is the most likely scenario, perhaps with Rwanda deploying its forces along its side of the line.