Threatens to withdraw troops

Rwanda will withdraw its counterinsurgency troops from Mozambique if the mission’s foreign backers don’t maintain “sustainable funding,” the foreign minister said. Foreign Affairs Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said in a post on X that Rwandan troops were “being constantly questioned, vilified, criticised, blamed or sanctioned by the very countries that benefit from our intervention in Mozambique.” Nduhungirehe said, “It’s not that “Rwanda could withdraw.” “It’s that “Rwanda will withdraw” its troops from Mozambique, if sustainable funding is not secured for its counter-terrorism operations in Cabo Delgado,” he said, referring to Mozambique. Last week, the US State Department imposed visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fuelling instability” in eastern Congo, intensifying after sanctions that targeted Rwanda’s military.