Why Is Rwanda’s Leader Sowing Chaos in Congo? The Foreign Affairs Interview

Foreign Affairs invites you to listen to its podcast, the Foreign Affairs Interview. This episode with Michela Wrong was originally published on June 1, 2022.
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Paul Kagame was widely seen as a hero-a rebel leader who came to the rescue of his people and helped stop the killing. Over the last 30 years, the Rwandan president has cultivated this vision of himself, and the West has been eager to believe it.
But for Michela Wrong, a journalist who has covered Africa for decades, cracks in this story became too big to ignore. In her most recent book, Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, she investigates the 2014 political murder of a former Rwandan spy chief who fled the country after a falling out with Kagame. Her reporting uncovered the true nature of Kagame’s regime, painting a picture of a dictator who will stop at nothing to silence his critics. Now, in a piece for Foreign Affairs, Wrong reports on Kagame’s meddling in eastern Congo and how his support for the M23 rebel group is risking a broader regional conflict.
We discuss her reporting on Kagame, how Rwanda is working to destabilize central Africa today, and why the West is doing so little to stop it.
SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE
“Kagame’s Revenge” by Michela Wrong
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
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[@Paulus8765]

Michela Wrong is a brilliant & unique voice. Her account of corruption in Kenya, _It's our turn eat_ (2009), is almost unknown, even in Kenya itself.

[@janesmith506]

It is a disturbing interview, very well done.

[@thedemocraticmouse]

Fantastic picture of an area that I know nothing of and now I know a little bit more. It's amazing to me that the UK government would do an asylum deal with the Rwandan regime (actually, not really that amazing😢). And now I wonder: What will the regime do with those people who may end up being sent there? It could be the ultimate expression of the "hostile environment" policy of the UK government

[@mafarachisi]

It'd be interesting to hear how the Rwandans living in Rwanda feel about Kagame and his government?

[@mujunironald220]

Rwandese don't give a single damn about her opinions of what she assumes to know about a country she has less knowledge about or tries to distort it's history to fit her selfish interests. Rwanda is a nation that has emerged from the horrors of a genocide against the Tutsis to a progressive model nation to the rest of the world.

[@joshuaremis-crumb3174]

❤🎉 😂😮 ... 🎉🤣

[@nashyvan6667]

Its sad how the west says jump and we all have to say how high

[@thesilkpainter]

How is this the West????