{"id":46691,"date":"2024-04-10T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=46691"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:10:49","slug":"magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc","title":{"rendered":"Magosi Responds to Rwanda Remarks on SADC Troops in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Southern African Development Community has not taken kindly to recent remarks by Rwanda that its accusing its troops deployed to eastern DRC of \u201cnot being a neutral force\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Secretary of the regional bloc, Elias Magosi, expressed the disapproval when he addressed the SADC Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit in Lusaka, Zambia last week where he reaffirmed SADC\u2019s relentless pursuit of peace and security in war-torn DRC and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>In the DRC, the army is locked in a struggle with M23 rebels in a situation that often threatens to spread into a regional war between Rwanda and the DRC. On the other side of the sub-continent, Mozambique is fighting against Islamic rebels in the Cabo Delgado province in a war that goes back seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Anxious<\/p>\n<p>At the Troika summit in Lusaka, Magosi was anxious to emphasise how SADC should avoid negative external narratives that may compromise peace keeping missions.<\/p>\n<p>He said the SADC Organ Troika Summit as a whole \u201cdisapproves of the contents of the correspondence from Rwanda to the United Nations and the African Union concerning support to SAMIDRC\u201d and acknowledged the support that SAMIDRC enjoys from the African Union Commission and the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Magosi was speaking in response to a letter from Rwanda to the UNSC objecting to its support for SADC troops deployed to eastern DRC.<\/p>\n<p>Escalation<\/p>\n<p>The letter was written by Rwanda\u2019s foreign affairs minister Vincent Biruta to the president of UNSC, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, arguing that any decision to support SAMIDRC would be on the side of those who threaten the security of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government of Rwanda would like to request UNSC to avert the escalation in the eastern DRC by not reconsidering the request to provide logistical and operational support which could only feed into more escalation,\u201d the letter said in part.<\/p>\n<p>Removal<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is adamant that the international community is not paying attention to what it says is the root cause of the conflict, the DRC\u2019s alleged support of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) whose key objective is removal of Paul Kagame as president of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Botswana Gazette<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The Southern African Development Community has not taken kindly to recent remarks by Rwanda that its accusing its troops deployed to eastern DRC of \u201cnot being a neutral force\u201d. The Executive Secretary of the regional bloc, Elias Magosi, expressed the disapproval when he addressed the SADC Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit in Lusaka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-46691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Magosi Responds to Rwanda Remarks on SADC Troops in DRC - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Southern African Development Community has not taken kindly to recent remarks by Rwanda that its accusing its tro ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magosi Responds to Rwanda Remarks on SADC Troops in DRC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Southern African Development Community has not taken kindly to recent remarks by Rwanda that its accusing its tro ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-10T15:49:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/04\/sm_1712748998.410683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Magosi Responds to Rwanda Remarks on SADC Troops in DRC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-10T15:49:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\"},\"wordCount\":379,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/04\/sm_1712748998.410683.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/magosi-responds-to-rwanda-remarks-on-sadc-troops-in-drc\",\"name\":\"Magosi Responds to Rwanda Remarks on SADC Troops in DRC - 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