Things are becoming quite interesting for Rwanda. Last week after the UN came out with a damaging report showing that Rwanda is funding and supporting the forces loyal to General Laurent Nkunda, the government of The Netherlands suspended its development aid programme to Rwanda as a protest statement.

Now Sweden has followed suit and said that it is stopping its development aid programme worth 80 million kronor ($10 million) in annual aid to the Rwandan government after a United Nations report concluded that the country is helping armed Tutsi rebels in Congo.

But humanitarian aid of about 60 million kronor ($7.5 million) a year to international aid organizations in Rwanda will continue.

According to one of our analysts, this could show that the RPF government's role in Congo has put a strain on its love relationship with the West.

After the RPF took power in 1994, there was an outpouring of well deserved sympathy and it was like a competition to give aid to Rwanda and apologise for doing nothing during the genocide. The Europeans rose up as one man and stood by Rwanda, even though they were a little late.

Rwanda's president Paul Kagame described the U.N. report as "baseless" and said Rwandans will have to become self-reliant because donors easily change their minds on how and when to give aid.

"Plan B is there in form of people of Rwanda ... now they should be ready to survive under any circumstances," said Kagame. "We need to work really hard."

Kagame criticized donor countries, saying they upheld reports like the U.N.'s on the recent violence in eastern Congo when it was convenient for them.

"They withdraw their aid under the pretext of their taxpayers who would not keep on financing us with such allegations like that report," he said.

The UN report said children have been recruited to fight and that there is rampant abuse of womens rights. But European nations are famous for their selective sensitivity about human rights abuses so it remains to be seen whether other donors like Norway, Denmark and maybe even Germany will freeze aid to Rwanda.

The aid is not the important issue, in some cases it plays only a small supporting role so stopping it is largely symbolic. The issue is that people who had been looking only at one side in the Rwanda/Congo problem and supporting only the RPF government are now beginning to think again.

What we are waiting to see where this capricious compassion from Europe will strike next. Could it be that the Netherlands and Sweden are also going to suspend aid to Uganda for also actively supporting Nkunda's murderous troops?

In an earlier report, we unearthed signs that indicate high level contacts between Nkunda and president Museveni, by the presence of a young man in Entebbe who says he is Nkunda's son and calls Museveni "uncle".