Yesterday, Friday, June 13, 2025, the Director of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs for East and Southern Africa, Shri Mayank, gave an interview to the media about the bad atmosphere that has been going on for quite some time between Rwanda and the DRC.
He said that both sides are not children, they are adults and that they are countries with the right to make their own decisions.
Mayank Singh said: “I am not going to talk about the basis of it, because I would not have heard both sides and then made a judgment and heard the evidence and analyzed it, I will not do that, why? Because both sides are not children. They are adults, they are countries with the right to make their own decisions based on history, and how they understand these conflicts.”
He continued: As we think it should happen, first of all, the first step is that there should be an immediate cessation of hostilities. “Ceasefire and sit down at the negotiating table is the first step, and that is where we have always stood, whether it is Rwanda and the DRC, Russia and Ukraine, or Israel and Palestine. If you ask anyone to speak on behalf of India on any conflict, you would say: stop the fighting.”
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, heavy fighting continues, but the AFC/M23 alliance has not stopped showing the international community its concern over the unjust killing of civilians by the FARDC forces allied with Wazalendo and the FDRL fighting against the Kigali regime.
