
Mozambique urges EU rethink on ending Rwanda peace-mission cash
Mozambique wants the EU to rethink a decision to end €20m monthly payments for a Rwandan-led peacekeeping mission in its northern Cabo Delgado province.

Mozambique wants the EU to rethink a decision to end €20m monthly payments for a Rwandan-led peacekeeping mission in its northern Cabo Delgado province.

With EU foreign ministers ready to discuss possible sanctions on Rwanda at a meeting in Brussels next Monday, DR Congo communications minister Patrick Muyaya says the EU should match US sanctions over the eastern DR Congo invasion and reconsider its controversial minerals deal with Rwanda.

Samuel Nyabyenda Kwizera, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and a professional dancer, is married to a Belgian national with whom he has two Belgian children. His life was upended and his family torn apart after Belgian authorities allegedly tampered with his Rwandan passport.

The US Treasury imposed sanctions under its Global Magnitsky Act in the wake of the Rwandan army and the M23 militia group capturing the city of Ulvira in the South Kivu province of eastern DR Congo last year

The EU’s crisis commissioner Hadja Lahbib has made a three-day visit to eastern DR Congo and Burundi this week, to see for herself the scale of the refugee crisis.