Why is the UK determined to derail Trump’s DRC–Rwanda peace deal?
July 3, 2025
Britain is not done scheming. It is attempting to shape the Doha process just as it tried to do with Washington
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Britain is not done scheming. It is attempting to shape the Doha process just as it tried to do with Washington
We must remain clear-eyed about the fact that failure in Doha could unravel whatever is signed in Washington.
Ramaphosa is not a man whose word should be taken at face value
Fighting imperialism is unquestionably necessary. But should it be the end goal, or rather a means to a more meaningful end?
Burundi faces the grim reality of either sharing a 236-kilometre border with a hostile force or fighting to the bitter end, with the risk that the conflict could spill over into Burundian territory
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
Following the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, speculation about Rwanda’s alleged plans to annex parts of eastern Congo has intensified.
Any talk of withdrawing Rwandan troops before neutralising the FDLR threat is not just diplomacy as usual; it is an endorsement of Kinshasa’s thinly-veiled genocidal project
President João Lourenço is carefully manoeuvring to bring the Luanda and Nairobi processes together
The new administration will have a unique opportunity to distance itself from the policies of its predecessor under Joe Biden
Britain is not done scheming. It is attempting to shape the Doha process just as it tried to do with Washington
We must remain clear-eyed about the fact that failure in Doha could unravel whatever is signed in Washington.
Ramaphosa is not a man whose word should be taken at face value
Fighting imperialism is unquestionably necessary. But should it be the end goal, or rather a means to a more meaningful end?
Burundi faces the grim reality of either sharing a 236-kilometre border with a hostile force or fighting to the bitter end, with the risk that the conflict could spill over into Burundian territory
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
Following the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, speculation about Rwanda’s alleged plans to annex parts of eastern Congo has intensified.
Any talk of withdrawing Rwandan troops before neutralising the FDLR threat is not just diplomacy as usual; it is an endorsement of Kinshasa’s thinly-veiled genocidal project
President João Lourenço is carefully manoeuvring to bring the Luanda and Nairobi processes together
The new administration will have a unique opportunity to distance itself from the policies of its predecessor under Joe Biden
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