The UK decision to suspend some Rwanda aid is “Punasive”, the authorities in East African country say.
In a statement, the UK says Rwanda’s support for M23, a group of rebels who earn swathes in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in a deadly revolt.
Rwanda used the backing of M23, but recently adopted a more defensive line, saying fighting near the border between Dr. Congo and Rwanda a threat.
More than 7,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes since conflict has evolved in January, the Government of Dr Conge said.
In a statement on Tuesday night, the UK said the Humanitarian situation in Dr Congo “is critical” and that it fails with bilateral assistance in Rwanda, “excludes support of poorer and weaker”.
This month’s past, the British Firicat Sixtery Daammy said Rwanda says about £ 32m ($ 40m) in bilateral aid from the UK each year.
Associated with aid suspension, the UK will impose other steps, such as seeing potential punishment and suspension of “Future defense transter assistance” in Rwanda, statement says.
These steps last up to “significant progress” was made to quit battles and withdrawal of rwandans military personnel from Dr Congo.
UN experts have previously estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan troops are in the East Dr Congo.
Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry says the “punitive steps” announced by the UK government “in response to the Eastern DRC conflict – where the UK is currently selected”.
“Steps are helpless to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo, nor they share in achieving a lasting political solution to the Eastern Drc solution.”
UK used to enjoy good rwanda relationship. In 2022, both countries sign a million miraculous deals, where some asylum seekers reached by British land will be exiled to Rwanda.
Deal is facing legal challenges and scraped last year after a UK government change.
The Government of Dr Congo campaigns for international power to suspend help and inflict penalties in Rwanda.
Last week, the US Treasury Department imposes the Penalties of the Minister of Rwanda State for Participation in the Region, James Sharpene.
The US accuses the clay, a chief of former army, central to Rwanda’s support for M23.
Lawrence Kanyuka, M23 spokesman, as well as two companies that he controled in France and UK, said the US Treasury.
Reply to the US Move, the Foreign Ministry of Rwanda said the sanctions “were unreasonable”.
M23 says it fights to achieve Good rights for tutsisA DR Congo ethnic minority group, and to give a failed situation.
The rebels get two biggest cities in Dr Congo, rubber and bukavu.
