A new investigation maps the machine built to silence me. 100+ coordinated X accounts swarming every post I make on Kagame and his regime, AI-generated caricatures, and my late mother's name (Muteteri) weaponized into a hashtag to harass me. This coordinated inauthentic behavior is visualized. 1,000+ posts under #Byansi, one target, all of it flagged with AI markers. Rwanda's influence network doesn't debate dissidents. It swarms them. I'm the case study. public.flourish.studio/visua…

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I wrote this because Kagame's regime propaganda speaks in my language and in my name. In August, two regime outlets ran pieces within a day of each other. One claimed the Kivus are "drifting" back to Rwanda after a century of colonial separation. The other claimed #Burundi's ruling party was founded by the génocidaires of 1994, based on the word of a single anonymous "former FDLR officer." Neither holds up. The pre-colonial Rwandan kingdom was smaller than today's Rwanda, not bigger. The @CnddFdd came out of Burundi's own civil war after Ndadaye's assassination, not out of Rwanda's genocide. But the timing matters more than the history. Under the Washington framework, Rwanda only has to leave Congo once the #FDLR is "neutralised." So as long as the FDLR is sold as an existential threat and its alleged sponsors as genocidal, Kigali never has to withdraw. What worries me most is who this is really aimed at. In Kinyarwanda, the regime says things it would never risk saying in English. They call invasion protection. A captured city becomes a homecoming. Every critic becomes a génocidaire. Fact-checkers and platform moderators can't read it, so nobody pushes back. That puts Kinyarwanda speakers in Congo in danger, not the other way around. When Kigali claims to speak for all of us, it turns a whole community into suspects in their own country. Someone has to translate the warning. So I did. Read my full analysis here: m28investigates.com/rwanda-w…

Africa Intelligence reports that some in #M23 tried to push Makenga out and replace him with Ngaruye. Before moving, they took the plan to Rwandan security people. That's who they felt they needed approval from. Not Nangaa, not their own ranks. Kagame’s regime.

Rwanda and Belgium have agreed to restore diplomatic relations. The real question now is whom Kigali will nominate as ambassador. Because the post carries dual accreditation to #Belgium and the #EU institutions, the appointee will almost certainly come from the regime's inner circle, a trusted operator rather than a career diplomat. Rwanda's embassies have long served as instruments of influence and diaspora surveillance, none more so than the one in Brussels, and there is little reason to expect this appointment to be different. How Belgium vets the candidacy will therefore be telling. The risk is that, keen to consolidate the rapprochement, Brussels may apply less scrutiny than the profile warrants, effectively wheeling the Kagame regime's Trojan horse back through its own gates.

Kigali broke ties with Brussels in March 2025, calling Belgium "neo-colonial." Eighteen months later, relations are restored, and nothing has changed on the ground. M23 still holds Goma and Bukavu, and nobody in Kigali has admitted anything. Kagame's regime didn't come back because it changed course on Congo, on its aggression towards its neighbours, or on its repression of Rwandans at home. It came back because it wants the Brussels channel back. So what were these "misunderstandings" cleared up in New York, and what did Belgium give up for this handshake? We'll find out at the next #EU sanctions renewal. We should also watch who Kigali accredits to Brussels, and start documenting any new cases of transnational repression against the diaspora.

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Apathy isn't a mystery. When outcomes are effectively settled before the vote and questioning results carries no weight (legal, political, or otherwise) then the participation stops feeling like a choice and becomes a formality. Voters disengage when contestation is neither possible nor consequential. That's not a turnout problem, it's a credibility one.

Credit to @AmnestyEARO for naming Rwanda, not just M23. The two aren't separate problems, they're one supply chain. The coltan and gold #M23 controls at the mine face leaves eastern #DRCongo and reappears as "Rwandan" exports. A country with negligible reserves of its own has become one of the world's top coltan exporters. That laundering is the trafficking. Indeed, global companies should stop buying gold and coltan from Kagame's Rwanda until the regime ends trafficking of minerals tainted with human rights abuses from eastern DRC.

New Amnesty briefing: M23 fighters forced miners underground for a week at a time, tortured and killed them, then shipped gold and coltan to Rwanda "each morning, with traders from Rwanda." Callamard says this may be pillage. The laundering of Congolese minerals through Kigali is not a rumour. It's a documented atrocity. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

Kagame's regime is running an information war, and last month it showed its hand. Two articles surfaced in #Rwanda's mouthpieces within a day of each other. The first redraws the map, Kivu "drifting back" to a "Greater Rwanda" after a "century of colonial separation," so #M23's occupation reads as repair, not conquest. The second uses a lone "#FDLR defector" to brand Burundi's rulers génocidaires by descent, so Rwanda's cross-border war reads as self-defence, not aggression. One normalises the territory, the other criminalises the opposition. And as long as the FDLR stays "existential," the withdrawal clock never starts. Read my full breakdown via @zammagazine / @ZAMBureauAfrika👇👇zammagazine.com/politics-opi…

Rwanda is now the world's #1 coltan exporter, with almost none of its own. @newhumanitarian's rare look inside the M23/AFC war economy shows how the group taxes DRC mines, relabels the loot in Kigali, and feeds it to global electronics supply chains. @UN experts put coltan levies alone at $10M/yr, the seized Twangiza mine looted for $70M in gold. This is a Kagame’s regime-run extraction system laundering #DRCongo's wealth through Kigali. thenewhumanitarian.org/analy…

FARDC say they killed four RDF special-forces elements in the Fizi high plateaus (Mulima–Mukoko), alongside 14 M23/Twirwaneho surrenders. Another data point in a well-documented pattern: UN experts put thousands of Rwandan troops in eastern DRC. yoward.com/larmee-congolaise…

"Where do you get this confidence when you were called 'Ibifobagane'?", in his verse on "REKA MBEHO," Bulldogg throws @PaulKagame's own word for Rwandans, the spineless, back in his face. Six of Rwanda's biggest artists @RidermanRiderzo , @junokizigenza, @Ishkevin_, Bulldogg, @AbijuruK (Papa Cyangwe) & The Unit released the song on Sept 14. Within days it was gone from their platforms. Across history, artists have been the ones who name what a people are told to swallow in silence, the singers, poets and rappers who gave revolts against dictatorship their language long before politicians dared to speak. That force is not dead in Rwanda. We should not take for granted that, under one of Africa's most surveilled states, six artists still chose to stand up and say plainly: “Let us live”. Understand what that choice costs them. Not just deleted songs but also their careers, income, sponsorships, and the safety of their families, who become leverage the moment the state decides an artist has "caused trouble." Kizito Mihigo paid the fullest version of that price: his song vanished in 2014, and he never survived the decade that followed. So the question isn't why "REKA MBEHO" disappeared. It's whether we will value the courage while these voices are still here to protect instead of only mourning it, as we always do, once it's too late. To @RidermanRiderzo, @junokizigenza, @Ishkevin_, Bulldogg, @AbijuruK and The Unit, THANK YOU. For your courage, and for saying out loud what many can't. #IndirimboIfiteubutumwa

Grateful for the Erasmus+ Economy of Francesco experience (@FrancescoEcon), and for the professors and academics at the Catholic University of Croatia and the other universities for their time, knowledge and generosity throughout the program. The Croatian spirit and vibes made every moment in Zagreb & Split a pleasure. Thank you.

Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority has fined @FlyRwandAir ₦15m and ordered it to pay $170 compensation + replace a passenger's damaged bag, after the airline failed to resolve a baggage complaint within the timeframe set by Part 19 of the NCAA Regulations 2023. newscentraltv.com/ncaa-sanct…

Kagame's regime just got crowned Africa's #1 country for "fighting corruption" by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Sounds great. Here's what that ranking can't see. A few weeks after it came out, Rwanda's national pension fund @RSSB_Rwanda bought @AlwaysInyange Industries and Ruliba Clays from @CVLRwanda, the business empire of the ruling party @rpfinkotanyi. The price? Never disclosed. Not to the pensioners whose money it was, not to anyone. The party sold, the state bought, same people sit on both sides of the table. That's not corruption in the "bribe a traffic cop" sense the index measures. It's the bigger, quieter kind: the ruling elite treating a nation's retirement savings like their own account. And because Kagame long ago crushed the free press and the independent watchdogs who'd normally shout about this, nobody inside the country can. No headlines, no scandal, so the index reads "clean." Think about what that means. You silence everyone who could report corruption, and then a ranking rewards you for the silence. That's not a measure of integrity. It's a measure of how well you've buried the story. Meanwhile the retirees whose money this is get by on as little as $25 a month. And this is just the one that surfaced, follow any big pot of money in Kagame's Rwanda and it ends up in the same hands. Ask better questions of these rankings, @Mo_IbrahimFdn.

Belgium's Royal Higher Institute for Defence (e-Note 103) puts Rwandan Defence Forces at 14,000-18,000 troops inside eastern #DRCongo as of July 2026 with air defence, UAVs and rocket launchers it calls essential to M23's advances. Add Rwanda's role laundering looted Congolese coltan and gold, and Kagame’s regime denies involvement stops being a serious position.

Rwanda's tantalum exports have nearly tripled in five years. Its own geology can't produce it. The difference is trafficked out of DR Congo along militarized routes and then laundered into the supply chains of trillion-dollar tech firms claiming to be "conflict-free." canadiandimension.com/articl…

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Grateful for my time in Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦. I climbed Apparition Hill in Medjugorje and sat with the Franciscans at the old cross that told Francis of Assisi to rebuild, not to command. When everyone else picked up a sword, Francis walked into the Sultan’s tent just to talk. That’s the lesson our region, the Great Lakes keeps missing. You can’t loot your neighbour’s house and call it self-defence. DR Congo and Rwanda are neighbours, not master and servant. Take care of each other. Stop trying to run each other.