Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may now be endangered.

The current fighting is the result of a decision by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to incite ethnic violence and to support groups that perpetrated the Rwanda genocide.

It has warned that it would not return the $410 million already paid by London to Kigali. Read more at straitstimes.com.

At the moment the situation in the eastern region of DRC is grim. Rwanda has been supporting several armed groups across the border that are working against the Congolese. This includes the latest armed group, the M23, made up of Tutsis who say they want to protect their fellow kinsmen known as the Banyamulenge, long marginalised by the DRC.

Germany’s development ministry says it will suspend new financial commitments to Rwanda over that country’s alleged support of the M23 rebels in neighboring eastern Congo

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.