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The award for the most stylish World Cup arrival goes to DR Congo 😎🇨🇩

(FR/EN) 🇨🇩 Je suis outré par les déformations — délibérées ou non — de la position de la Belgique sur l'est de la RDC qui circulent en ce moment sur les réseaux sur la base d'une lecture totalement (volontairement?) biaisée de l'un de mes récents tweets. Qu'il n'y ait pas d'ambiguïté : l'intégrité territoriale et la souveraineté de la RDC ne sont pas négociables. Pas de conditions, pas de préalables. Depuis le début, la Belgique a été à la pointe de la défense de ces principes au niveau international et le restera. De même, j'ai condamné l'agression rwandaise sans détour et je continuerai à le faire tant que l'ensemble des troupes rwandaises n'auront pas quitté le sol congolais. Mais j'ai aussi toujours plaidé pour la mise en œuvre complète des accords de Washington signés par la RDC et le Rwanda. Ces accords sont limpides : le retrait des troupes rwandaises et la neutralisation des FDLR figurent dans la même phrase, à l'article 1. Contrairement à l'intox qui circule, la Belgique ne conditionne pas l'un à l'autre. Elle demande simplement que chacun honore rapidement ses engagements librement consentis et reconfirmés à plusieurs reprises. C'est d'ailleurs exactement ce que disent les États-Unis par la voix de Massad Boulos, le Qatar, l'Union africaine et l'ensemble des partenaires du Groupe de contact international. La population congolaise a trop souffert. Face à l'urgence, y compris l'épidémie Ebola, il faut agir maintenant ! Et faire taire les armes par toutes les parties. _________ 🇨🇩 I am outraged by the distortions — whether deliberate or not — of Belgium's position on eastern DRC now circulating on social media, based on a completely (deliberately?) biased reading of one of my recent tweets. Let there be no ambiguity: the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the DRC are non-negotiable. No conditions, no preconditions. From the outset, Belgium has led the international defense of these principles, and it will continue to do so. Likewise, I have condemned Rwanda's aggression in no uncertain terms, and I will keep doing so until every Rwandan soldier has left Congolese soil. But I have also consistently called for the full implementation of the Washington agreements signed by the DRC and Rwanda. Those agreements are crystal clear: the withdrawal of Rwandan troops and the neutralization of the FDLR appear in the same sentence, in Article 1. Contrary to the disinformation being spread, Belgium does not make one conditional on the other. It simply asks that everyone swiftly honor the commitments they freely entered into and have reaffirmed time and again. This is exactly what the United States through Massad Boulos, Qatar, the African Union, and all the partners of the International Contact Group are saying as well. The Congolese people have suffered far too much. Faced with the urgency, including the Ebola outbreak, we must act now! And silence the guns of all actors. @BelgiumMFA @BelgiqueRDCongo

⚠️Bitwaye iki leta @RwandaGov gutangaza ko inzara iri guca ibintu mu hirya no hino mu gihugu, wenda abagiraneza bagoboka izi ngorwa zituye mu byaro zitagira kivugira kweri?🤔

NEW: Rwandan military forces and the M23 armed group carried out a campaign of forced recruitment and abusive detention of captured combatants and civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In a new report, HRW documents large-scale roundups and arrests as well as grave abuses.

Twibwirane numéro 5 : Twibwirane na Jean Paul Turayishimye wavuzwe mu i... youtube.com/live/bDkQPRuXV9g… via @YouTube

A Zimbabwe court has acquitted and released a prominent opposition activist after more than seven months in detention on baseless charges. The acquittal is a stark reminder of the threats critics of the regime face in Zimbabwe. hrw.org/news/2026/06/08/zimb…

Au Burundi, le Festival Umukozo s'est déroulé ce vendredi dans la capitale Bujumbura. Au programme : des parades de rue, des danses guerrières et un carnaval du tambour qui a fait vibrer toute la ville.

‼️HOW MY FIGHT CHANGED THE LAW IN BELGIUM, AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR OTHERS‼️ You may know Paul #Rusesabagina as the man who inspired Hotel Rwanda. He is also the father of @ckanimba, my fellow member of the @WLCongress. Since 2005, the Rwandan government threatened him repeatedly, with break-ins and intimidation, to the point that Belgian intelligence provided him protection. Then #Rwanda turned the international cooperation system against him: a "mutual legal assistance" (#MLA) request that led Belgian authorities to search his home in Kraainem, #Brussels, in 2020, and his private documents were passed to Rwanda. The search was carried out by Belgian police in the presence of Rwandan agents. Paul Rusesabagina had protection in Belgium, but no way to fight back against the MLA request. The law had a gap: he could not appeal the search of his home or the seizure of his documents. Soon after, he was lured to #Dubai, abducted with no extradition process at all, and taken to Rwanda, where he says he was tortured. The documents seized in Belgium and transferred to Rwanda were then used as "evidence" in a sham trial. 🚩One crucial point : under the MLA, Belgium never assessed this so-called "evidence" at all; essentially everything found in his house was handed to the regime. Rwanda's message was simple: "Belgium handed over the evidence, so the case is proven." The dirty work was done in Rwanda; the clean appearance was borrowed from Belgium. In other words, Belgium had unwittingly given a fabricated case the stamp of legitimacy the moment it complied with the MLA request. 🚩This is what should be called "injustice laundering." A regime fabricates a political case at home, then uses international cooperation channels to push it into a Western legal system, where it suddenly looks credible. This is exactly the danger I have spent seven years fighting. #Kazakhstan abused the same MLA system against me, twisting it into a tool of transnational repression.🚩 And my fight changed Belgian law. I am a political refugee in Belgium. After Kazakhstan's secret service failed to abduct me or have me extradited from Belgium, it took my brother hostage on fabricated charges, tortured him, and held him in solitary confinement. Then it sent Belgium an MLA request, asking it to assist in the investigation of the case. Surprisingly, Belgium complied. When my home was searched in 2019 at Kazakhstan's request, by the Federal Police and in the presence of Kazakh agents, Belgian law gave a refugee like me no way to challenge it in court, the same gap that had left Paul Rusesabagina defenceless. But I appealed anyway. In its judgment 1/2022, the Constitutional Court of Belgium recognised that people in my situation must have a right to appeal, and called on Parliament to change the law. On 3 June 2026, the Court of Cassation made my victory final, confirming that Kazakhstan's request against me was politically motivated. (lalibre.be/dernieres-depeche…) 📌This means that today, people targeted this way in Belgium can go to court and challenge a political decision to cooperate with an authoritarian regime. 📌Both cases share the same anatomy. An authoritarian regime dresses up political persecution as an ordinary criminal request, and a democratic state risks becoming the instrument of that repression. The difference is that, thanks to years of litigation, victims in Belgium now have a legal weapon to fight back: the right to appeal that my case secured. 📌The lesson is clear. The #EU must stop letting its legal system be weaponised by regimes like #Kazakhstan and #Rwanda. Legal safeguards are not a technicality. They are what stands between a political dissident and a prison cell and tortures abroad. The fight against transnational repression goes on. #TransnationalRepression #HumanRights 📄 More on the Rusesabagina case (@ClooneyFDN fairness report): cfj.org/wp-content/uploads/2… 📷In the photo: my brother after being tortured in 2018. In an attempt to prove that my brother had not been tortured, the authorities showed him to a select group of local media. However, he was not allowed to show his face. Later, due to the WGAD and international pressure he was released, just as Dr Rusesabagina.