These far-flung troop deployments are at the heart of Mr Kagame’s strategy of making Rwanda an exporter of security across Africa—the neighbourhood cop, if you will.

There is growing concern that an advance toward Bukavu could escalate the conflict further. Tensions have flared between Rwanda and South Africa, which provides the largest contingent to SAMIDRC, the ...

International pressure is mounting on Rwanda due to its backing of the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an accusation Kigali consistently denies.The region remains tense on ...

Rwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central Africa, is trying to recover from the ethnic strife that culminated in government-sponsored genocide in the mid-1990s. An estimated 800,000 ...