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UN Arms Trade Treaty to take effect in December

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An ambitious treaty designed to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade will take effect on Dec. 24 after it was ratified Thursday by five more countries. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that more than 50 countries have now ratified the treaty, meaning it will soon take force. “Today marks a milestone,” Ban said,… Read More

Rwandan Government raising its tourism profile by hiring UK based PR firm

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Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has challenged Kamageo – a UK-based representation agency - to increase tourism to Rwanda, by adopting their recently launched “Remarkable Rwanda” campaign. Kamageo will be responsible for implementing a 9-month long marketing programme targeting would-be travellers from the UK, North America and central Europe. . Read More

Military Purges in Rwanda Expose Cracks in Kagame Regime

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame speaking at the London Summit on Family Planning, July 11, 2012 (U.K. Department for International Development photo).   Last month, three high-ranking Rwandan military figures close to President Paul Kagame were arrested and charged with so-called crimes against state security. The military purgeshave fueled fears of a political crisis for Kagame with dissension among the ranks of… Read More

Rwanda Militia Commander ‘Tired Of War’

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The commander of one of the Rwandan militia hiding out in the eastern Congolese mountains has told Sky News his men will not disarm without guarantees for their safety. Colonel Bonheur – as he called himself but which is almost certainly not his real name – said his band of soldiers would be forced to continue fighting unless a political… Read More

The Untold Stories: America celebrates Kagame day not Rwandan Day.

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Kagame posing for a photo with a young person As Europe continues to be a hostile ground for President Kagame,he  has decided to crisscross the United States of America almost every moth preaching the gospel of lies concerning what he calls the economic success, reconciliation and shamelessly democracy .Together with his wife, the Kagame’s have been giving lectures to their admirers… Read More

Mauritius: Model of democracy?

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Port Louis, 23 September: The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere.  Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true when one reflects on the current turmoil and persistent gender inequality we are witnessing in Mauritius. Women are represented almost everywhere in various public and private sectors, but remain invisible... Read More

RWANDA ON THE BRINK OF WAR AS UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM FACE A DIFFICULT CHOICE

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An Open Note to President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron Your Excellences, In 1994 both of you were still young in distinguished political journeys that eventually placed you at the pinnacles of power in the United States and the United Kingdom. You recall that 1994 was a watershed moment in Rwanda that gave birth to a national tragedy-that of genocide-… Read More

KAGAME’S IMPERSONATION AND PARANOIA: THE DEADLY COMBINATION

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Authored by Eng Emmanuel Ngarambe Rwanda is thousands of years old. Kings have ruled and left. Presidents have faked democracy and undemocratically left. Rwanda has remained. Rwanda will remain. Unlike us Rwandans, Rwanda is everlasting. Our ancestors lived in Rwanda and died. Like you and me, Kagame will die one day. Rwanda will never die. Rwanda will always be there… Read More

Kenyan ICC Case: Witness Says He Made Up Meeting at Ruto’s Home

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A witness told the International Criminal Court (ICC) he made up a meeting that was supposed to have taken place at the home of William Samoei Ruto in December 2007, weeks ahead of the general elections that year. Witness 604 said on Friday he made up the meeting “to make my statement more reliable.” The witness changed the account he... Read More
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