South Africa expels Rwandan diplomats

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Over connections to murders and attempted murders of Rwandan dissidents living in South Africa.

Rwanda's ability to punch above its weight is oddly impressive in their mounting invasions of the DRC and ordering hits on political opponents in South Africa. Pretoria obviously has every right to be pissed.

[Хahar 🤔]

Paul Kagame is an exceedingly powerful man.

[Sol]

Yeah, Rwanda does have a weird degree of power in the region. Does this indicate any possible souring on Kagame from the US?

[Simfan34]

Yeah, Rwanda does have a weird degree of power in the region. Does this indicate any possible souring on Kagame from the US?

South Africa hasn't gotten its marching orders from the US recently. Or ever.

But ordering hitmen is not something particularly hard to do.

Nor is invading Eastern Congo- there isn't much central authority there to begin with. Museveni was also running around the region back in the late 1990s alongside Kagame (with disastrous effect).

But it remains to be seen whether this will affect Kagame's reputation as an autocratic technocratic reformer who's turned his country into some sort of IT powerhouse. Because it hasn't really, Kenya remains unquestioned in that field for the region.