Rwanda Planning to Attack Burundi, Says President

Burundi’s president has told the BBC he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda plans to attack his Country.

Évariste Ndayishimiye also said that Rwanda had tried to launch a coup a decade ago in Burundi, akin to “what it’s doing in the Democratic Republic of Congo” now.

Rwanda has already hit back, calling the president’s comments “surprising” and insisting that the two neighbours are co-operating on security plans for their shared border, which has been shut for over a year.

At the heart of Ndayishimiye’s comments was a call for peace and the full implementation of an agreement between the two nations – a peace deal that had been signed in previous years but, according to Burundi, had not been honoured by Rwanda.

Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general’s threat to target its airports, calling it a “declaration of war.”

Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a “square Metre of Chadian territory is threatened”.

The warning follows comments from Lieutenant-General Yasir Al-Atta, The Deputy Commander of Sudan’s Army, who said the UAE was using chad’s airports to deliver weapons to the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF).