Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are neighbours with a shared history. But their ongoing differences are now playing out in regional and international organisations, signalling a future cooperation problem.
On Monday, the Rwandan Cabinet endorsed the country’s decision to quit the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which Kigali accuses of not calling out Kinshasa when it “directly violated Article 3 of the ECCAS Treaty on good-neighbourliness, by repeatedly shelling Rwanda.”