Security

DRC: FARDC Deploys Antipersonnel Mines Targeting Innocent Civilians

This terrorist strategy is a deliberate choice by the FARDC to inflict more civilian casualties in order to compensate for their setbacks on the battlefield

14 September 2026 · 5 min read

The Blood Businessmen: The Tshisekedi Family’s Opaque Procurement of Arms and Ammunition for the FARDC

Beyond the mining sector in Katanga, where the Tshisekedi family is involved in unprecedented looting, the family has also extended its tentacles into the procurement of military equipment, marked by a similarly unprecedented level of opacity.

9 September 2026 · 5 min read

DRC Compliance with the Washington Agreement: Where Félix Tshisekedi Lied Again

As long as the FDLR remain in the DRC, protected and supported by the Kinshasa regime, Rwanda reserves the right to defend itself against any actor and any State working to destabilize a country that has endured a painful genocide.

28 August 2026 · 5 min read

National Security and Self-Defense: Is Rwanda's Stance Toward Eastern DRC Justified?

​A state has no limits to impose upon itself when its integrity, institutional stability, and the security of its people are threatened by a rebellion, a third-party state, or foreign armed groups

25 August 2026 · 5 min read

DRC: Burundian Army Continues to Reinforce Troops in South Kivu

20 August 2026 · 5 min read

Eastern DRC: The Risk of Dangerous Escalation

The security situation in the Fizi Highlands of South Kivu province is at risk of a dangerous escalation

19 August 2026 · 5 min read

The FDLR: Nuisance Capacity, Generational Resurgence, and Existential Threat to Peace in the Great Lakes Sub-Region

Recent reports from several independent experts indicate that former Rwandan génocidaires are stronger and more dangerous in 2026 than when they fled to the Congo in 1994 following their acts of genocide in Rwanda.

12 August 2026 · 5 min read

The shadow of Gitega over the conflict in eastern DRC

How Évariste Ndayishimiye’s government is sinking eastern DRC into geopolitical chaos

9 August 2026 · 5 min read

Crisis in eastern DRC: Rwanda’s security perspective

An in-depth analysis of the Washington peace framework, the historical stakes surrounding the FDLR and Kigali’s security strategy

9 August 2026 · 5 min read

The alliance of terror: Kinshasa, the FDLR and the unravelling of the Congolese state

An analytical critique of the alliance between the Congolese government and the FDLR, this opinion piece demonstrates that the security crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo stems primarily from an internal failure. Attributing all of the Congo's woes to Kigali serves to obscure the systemic governance deficiencies as well as the progressive collapse of the state apparatus.

5 August 2026 · 9 min read

The Washington Accord: genuine intent from Kinshasa, or a mere sham on the FDLR?

On Tuesday 28 July 2026 Kinshasa announced the signing of a disarmament, demobilisation and cantonment protocol with the FDLR, presented as the fulfilment of its Washington Accord commitments. Kigali immediately brushed the announcement aside as a mere media artifice.

30 July 2026 · 6 min read

Communication from the Political Coordinator of the AFC-M23

Following the repeated, widespread, and criminal violations of the ceasefire by the Kinshasa regime's coalition.

18 June 2026 · 9 min read