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PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY

January 23, 2014 Global AuthorGenocide, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda National Congress, Theogene Rudasingwa

AMAHORO/FDU/RNC PLATFORM: PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY RWANDAAMAHORO People’s Congress – FDU-INKINGI – RNC January 12th , 2014 PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME CONFIRMS HIS REGIME’S ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF COLONEL PATRICK KAREGEYA AND DECLARES WAR ON RWANDANS On January 1st, 2014, the strangled body of an opposition leader, the late Colonel Patrick Karegeya , was found in Michelangelo Hotel… Read More

Rwanda: Investigate Anti-Corruption Campaigner’s Murder

January 22, 2014 Global Authoractivist Paul Kagame, human rights watch, Investigate, murder, Rwanda

Gustave Makonene Rwanda: Investigate Anti-Corruption Campaigner’s Murder Stalling, Silence on Activist’s Death (Nairobi, January 22, 2014) – Official investigations into the murder of a Rwandan anti-corruption activist appear to have ground to a halt six months later, Human Rights Watch said today. The case has received surprisingly little public attention, and the victim’s family is still awaiting justice. Human Rights… Read More

In Rwanda, a deadly fight among the ruling elite

January 22, 2014 Global AuthorGenocide, Kagame, Karegeya, Rwanda

(Carl Court, File, Pool/ Associated Press ) – FILE – In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in central London. Critics of Rwanda’s government say the killing in… Read More

Africa: Accor is celebrating today its 1000th ibis hotel around the world

January 22, 2014 Global Author

PRESS RELEASE Accor, the world’s leading hotel operator in the economy and budget segment with over 1,700 hotels is celebrating today its 1000th ibis hotel around the world with Ibis expedition: the ultimate sleep In Africa, ibis is strong with its network of 34 ibis hotels in Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal,… Read More

Joyce Banda, an African arms firm and the free use of the jet she sold

January 22, 2014 Global AuthorBingu's Plane, Cashgate, Duncan Halliday, Fortune Air, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Malawi Corruption, Nhlane

Amid a corruption scandal that has alarmed donors including Britain, the president of Malawi faces questions over her free use of the private jet apparently sold to an arms firm with government contracts. A jet sold by Joyce Banda, the Malawian president – attracting praise from key donors including Britain – is believed to have been bought by a controversial… Read More

Zimbabwe: Caine Prize Returns to Zimbabwe

January 20, 2014 Global Author

For the first time in the history of the Caine Prize, its annual workshop will take place in Zimbabwe at the end of March and will see the launch of the Prize’s 2013 anthology, published by amaBooks, one of eight co-publishers of the Caine Prize anthologies. The 12 writers will be ensconced in the Vumba before participating in two events... Read More

VOANEWS:IMF Lifts Suspension of Funds to Malawi

January 20, 2014 Global Author

BLANTYRE, MALAWI — According to VOANEWS, The International Monetary Fund has resolved to immediately disburse about $20 million in suspended funding to Malawi. The IMF imposed the suspension last October pending investigations of a scandal in which millions of dollars in public funds were looted from government coffers. Although government authorities are happy with the IMF’s change of heart, commentators warn... Read More

Malawi court starts hearing landmark homosexual case

January 20, 2014 Global AuthorAmon Champyuni, Bingu Mutharika, Homosexual laws, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Zolomphi Nkowani

Blantyre, Malawi, Jan. 20 (MaraviPost) _ The High Court in Blantyre Monday started hearing a case whose outcome may determine the future of Malawi homophobic laws.Centre for Development of People (CEDEP), a civil rights group that campaigns for minority rights including those for sexual minorities, took government to court to review the conviction of three men who are serving long... Read More

Memorial service held for Patrick Karegeya the former Rwandan spy chief

January 19, 2014 Global AuthorMozambique, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

The family of a former Rwandan intelligence chief found dead in a Johannesburg hotel held a memorial service for the ex-spymaster turned critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Patrick Karegeya's family and colleagues in an opposition coalition accuse Kagame of ordering his assassination. A week ago, Rwanda's foreign minister said her government had no sympathy for the slain former spy... Read More

U.S. rebukes Rwandan leader amid scrutiny over opponent’s murder

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorJen PSaki, Kagame, Karegeya, Obama, Rwanda, South Africa, US State Department

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame arrives for the extraordinary session of the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the case of African Relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, October 12, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERI (Reuters) – The United States says it is deeply worried about threats made by Rwandan President Paul… Read More