Rwanda accuses DR Congo of violating its airspace, again

Demonstrators carrying a poster honouring DRC armed forces

Demonstrators carrying a poster honouring DRC armed forces march during a protest in Goma on June 15, 2022. The Rwandan government says the Democratic Republic of Congo has, again, violated Kigali’s airspace. PHOTO | AUBIN MUKONI | AFP

The Rwandan government says the Democratic Republic of Congo has, again, violated Kigali’s airspace in an enduring run of accusations and counter-accusations between the two sides.

Kigali claimed on Wednesday that a warplane from the DRC had violated Rwandan airspace, just over a month after another aircraft landed on the ‘wrong’ airport on the Rwandan side instead of the Congolese one.