Rwanda Joins Ghana in Sending Engineers to Jamaica After Hurricane

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Rwanda and Ghana project soft power abroad, but that image clashes with unresolved crises at home — corruption, poverty, and conflict that remain entrenched. Rwanda’s outreach is overshadowed by its backing of M23 in eastern Congo, where renewed fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands, even as goodwill tours continue. Ghana’s new government, meanwhile, began by declaring a former finance minister a fugitive, while the U.S. State Department pauses visas from Rwanda and dozens of other countries — exposing the gap between branding and reality.