Rwanda says DRC's fighter jet violated its airspace — the latest dispute between the two African countries whose ties have been strained by the M23 rebel insurgency
Rwandan forces fire at fighter jet from Democratic Republic of Congo that it says had violated its airspace, prompting Kinshasa to accuse Kigali of"an act of war." Ties are already fraught between the neighbours, with DRC accusing Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group, which has captured swaths of DRC's territory in east.
Rwanda has said a fighter jet from the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] violated its airspace as tensions soar between the neighbours over the DRC's volatile east. "A Sukhoi-25 from DRC violated Rwanda airspace for the third time," over Rubavu district, near Goma, Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said in a statement on Tuesday.The two previous cases were reported in November and December and saw protests from Kigali. The AFP news agency journalists in the eastern DRC city of Goma heard a loud explosion followed by two shots as the DRC aircraft flew over on Tuesday afternoon.Kinshasa denied one of its aircraft had flown over Rwanda and slammed Kigali for an "attack" on the jet that it said amounted to "an act of war". Ties are already fraught between the neighbours, with the DRC accusing Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group, which has captured swaths of DRC's territory in recent months. Kigali denies the allegations, which are backed by UN experts, the United States, France and Belgium. In turn, it accuses Kinshasa of colluding with the FDLR — a former Rwandan Hutu rebel group based in the DRC.
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