JENNIFER FIERBERG

Written by Jennifer Fierberg

Internet and Media Maven…working to inform, advocate and promote for causes in Central Africa. Having started out as a UN Volunteer many years ago in the media sector I was exposed to the human rights abuses that are rampant in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and have taken this information into internet and social media in order to expose and educate the greater public. Skilled in print and radio interviews, press release publication, intensive research skills and all around comprehensive journalist. I have also edited many books, both fiction…

The Suspension of Aid to Rwanda: A Late but Welcome Decision.

March 1, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergGreening, Kagame, RNC, Rwanda, UK

Jennifer Fierberg By: Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D., Economist, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada and Gallican Gasana, Genocide survivor, Toronto, Canada Kabila, Moon and Kagame (WASHINGTON DC) – On February 21st, 2013, Tony Blair and Howard G. Buffet published an article in The Foreign Policy in which they denounced the suspension of aid to Rwanda by many Western donors as a… Read More

The Men Who Killed Me

February 25, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg1994, Genocide, rape, Rwanda, sexual violence, The Men Who Killed Me

By: Jennifer Fierberg Many books have been written about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide from various perspectives. The majority of the books analyse the unending question of was this war planned, unplanned, a spontaneous outbreak of mass violence or an organized and strategic event that took the lives of almost one million people in just 100 days. Many questions will always… Read More

Behind the presidential curtains-reasons why President Kagame will clinch on power forever

February 20, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergCrystal Ventures, elections, Kagame, RPF, Third term

BY Noble Marara and Jennifer Fierberg President Paul Kagame has launched a process that he believes can finally end the debate on whether or not he will seek a third term. He has tasked three senior members of his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to come up with a “transition formula.” President Kagame used the platform of the party’s annual Nnational… Read More

Foreign Policy in Rwanda: A discussion with Deo Lukyamuzi

February 15, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergaid, Deo Lukyimuzi, FDU-INKINGI, RPF, Rwanda

By: Jennifer Fierberg Rwanda has faced numerous challenges in the past year with their credibility and foreign relations. Both have seen severe declines with the UN GoE report that states the M23 rebel group currently harassing Eastern DRC is being funded and organized by the Government of Rwanda. A claim the Rwandan Government denies. Due to the publications of these… Read More

Stand up for love to stop the use of child soldiers

February 13, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergChild Soldiers, DRC, Red Hand, Vision-GRAM International

By Jennifer Fierberg February 12, 2013, the world recognizes the International Day of child soldiers. Today, Child Soldiers are reported in 21 on-going conflicts around the world. Vision-GRAM International is an organization based in Canada and run by Congolese activists in order to stop the epidemic of children being forced into combat situations and provides them with education instead. Vision… Read More

Politician missing in Rwanda….again

January 29, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergFrank habineza, Green Party, Kagame, Rwanda

By Jennifer Fierberg The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has announced the mysterious disappearance of their Communication Secretary Oustazi Omar Leo. In a statement on his Facebook page Frank Habineza, President of the Democratic Green Party, made the following statement: “We have been searching for our communication secretary, Oustazi Omar Leo since Friday last week (19/1), while I was out… Read More

Behind the Presidential Curtains: President Kagame told citizens of Rwanda to tolerate and remain silent

January 24, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergBehind the Presidential Curtains, human rights, impunity, Paul Kagame, Rwanda

By: Noble Marara The Rwandan authoritarian regime run by President Kagame has forced the citizens of Rwanda into tolerating and remaining silent about any harassment instigated by either Kagame himself or his security operatives. The population has been reduced to strict “big-brother-like” security surveillance where it is reported that one out of six members of society is reporting on others.… Read More

Sanctions on Rwanda, Not Drones over DRC

January 21, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Drones, FDU, Kagame, Rwanda, UNSC

By: Jennifer Fierberg The use of drones for surveillance, security and other situations has been a hotbed of controversy for many years and in many countries. The UNSC proposed the use of unarmed surveillance drones over DRC in order to monitor the border between Rwanda and DRC much to the disagreement of the Rwandan diplomats at the UN. . Read More

The Man we need

January 15, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Kabila, Kagame, M23, Mukwege, rape

By Jennifer Fierberg True heroes are hard to find in our world today. So when one courageously stands up for the rights of others there deserves to be recognition and celebration of such a man. In the Democratic Republic of Congo a man dwells there who is a local hero, a true hero in every sense of the word. He… Read More

How an Ant crushes an Elephant

January 11, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Kabila, Kagame, Obama, Rwanda, UN, UNSC

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW On January 3, 2012 President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 despite his own threat to veto it over exclusions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. While most Americans will read this Act for how it affects them, as they should, there is a small portion that has the potential to… Read More