Since the announcement that Louise Mushikiwabo, the current Secretary General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, will seek a renewed mandate this coming November, Congolese propagandists have erupted into a familiar storm of anti-Rwanda noise.
Social media and various platforms went abuzz, overflowing with invented grievances and desperate declarations of abandoning the institution, as if the organization would collapse or an emegrncy meeting would be convened to plead them to stay.
Propagandists in Kinshasa claim that Rwanda somehow snatched the position using its influence. As if influence in diplomacy is a sin, as if international organizations are run on innocence and good intentions rather than strategy, alliances, and credibility.
What the primitives in Kinshasa fail to grasp is that influence is the currency of global politics. Countries that invest in it use it. Those that do not, complain loudly and rebrand their failure as injustice.
It is a strange confidence for a country that has not been meeting its most basic obligations within the very same organization, like financial and structural. The DRC, despite being the largest Francophone country by population, is among the few member states that have not been paying their OIF membership fees for years.
The country owes OIF arrears exceeding 30 million euros and yet, OIF never showed them the door. No public humiliation, no suspension, just quiet tolerance. That silence was not weakness. It was mercy. But unpaid bills have a way of resurfacing, and when they do, they often disguise themselves as indignation. Shame, when left unresolved, turns into noise.
A country that cannot honor its financial commitments to a serious international organization has no moral standing to question how its leadership is chosen. You do not skip the bill and then lecture the restaurant on who should manage the kitchen.
This is not about Rwanda. It is not even about Louise Mushikiwabo. It is about discipline, credibility, and seriousness. International organizations are not emotional spaces, they function on rules, contributions, and trust. Membership is not symbolic, it is contractual.
In African terms, this resembles a grown man who refuses to contribute to family obligations, misses every contribution, yet arrives at meetings shouting the loudest when decisions are made. The issue is not his voice, the issue is that he has not earned the right to be taken seriously.
Threats from a debtor are not leverage, they are theatre. Respect in international institutions is not claimed, it is paid for, demonstrated, and defended through consistency and no amount of shouting will stop Mushikiwabo from contesting again or get elected once again.
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