{"id":17377,"date":"2025-03-17T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17377"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:05:10","slug":"rwanda-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17377","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Cuts Diplomatic Ties with Belgium."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rwanda-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rwanda-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rwanda-980x586.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rwanda-480x287.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rwanda has <strong>severed diplomatic ties<\/strong> with Belgium and ordered all Belgian diplomats to leave the country within <strong>48 hours<\/strong>, escalating tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued on <strong>Monday<\/strong>, Rwanda\u2019s <strong>Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation<\/strong> accused Belgium of <strong>consistently undermining Kigali<\/strong> in relation to the ongoing conflict in the <strong>Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Belgium announced that <strong>Rwandan diplomats would no longer be welcome<\/strong> in the country, further deepening the diplomatic fallout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move marks a significant shift in <strong>Rwanda-Belgium relations<\/strong>, with both nations now at odds over their stance on the conflict in <strong>eastern DRC<\/strong>, where Rwanda has been accused of supporting the <strong>M23 rebel group<\/strong>\u2014allegations Kigali has repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium and ordered all Belgian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours, escalating tensions between the two nations. In a statement issued on Monday, Rwanda\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation accused Belgium of consistently undermining Kigali in relation to the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rwanda.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17379,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions\/17379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}