For the better part of Thursday evening, March 5, 2026, an alleged statement from Rwanda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, purportedly issued on behalf of President Paul Kagame’s government, claiming that Rwanda had ended diplomatic relations with the United States, went viral on social media. The statement, dated March 4, claimed that the Government of the
Rwanda President Paul Kagame has fired back at the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump for imposing sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and four of its top army commanders over their alleged direct operational support for the March 23 Movement (M23) and its affiliates in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In