Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The aid freeze comes a week after Rwanda suspended development cooperation from Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in Congo. Brussels said at the time the African nation was preempting the outcome of a review that was already underway.

Kigali accuses its colonial master of “an aggressive campaign together with DRC” to sabotage access to its development finance.

Belgium has a particularly unsavoury history of colonialising certain African countries and this continues to be a bone of contention