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Category: Central Africa

Middle Africa (as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions) is an analogous term that includes Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Press Conference: Advocates Call for End of U.S. Support of African Tyrants

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IPS’ Foreign Policy In Focus joins a diverse U.S. based activist coalition focusing on Africa is calling on U.S. leaders to cease their support and empowerment of brutal dictators across Africa. July 31 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm   A diverse U.S. based activist coalition focusing on Africa is calling on U.S. leaders to cease their support and empowerment of brutal… Read More

How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Africa

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BY JEFFREY SMITH Obama’s major summit with the continent’s leaders will only succeed if the White House eschews autocrats in favor of a new generation of democratic champions.    Over the next few weeks, there is going to be an awful lot of chatter about the current and future state of relations between the United States and Africa. That is because… Read More

Is President Kagame biting more than he can chew?

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by philipetyang i Rwanda President Paul Kagame and his Communist government has in the recent past been engaging regional and continental leaders in a war of words. His actions are tantamount to trying to assert the “illusionary power” of Rwanda as a country. Early last year, President Kagame was claimed to be heard issuing threats against Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete at an event… Read More

Why is the whole world still silent on the murder of Rwandan activist Makonene?

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  Gustave Makonene, coordinator of Transparency International Rwanda’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Center in Rubavu.   It has been a year since the murder of Gustave Makonene. The body of the Transparency International Rwanda employee was found on July 18, 2013 on the shore of Lake Kivu, outside the town of Rubavu, in Rwanda’s Western Province. Local residents found his… Read More

Rwanda: Acquitted but still not free

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Rwanda gets plenty of applause for putting the genocide behind and creating a reconciled society focused on marching forward to a prosperous future. But is that so? In this article, we learn that former high-ranking officials who were acquitted of genocide charges by the international crimes tribunal in Arusha, or who served their sentences, are not welcome back home. In… Read More

DGPR Calls upon Rwandan Authorities to Expedite Investigations in the Missing of it’s National Organising Secretary.

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Missing Jean Damascen Munyeshyaka   Press Release: The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda calls upon all concerned authorities in the Republic of Rwanda to expedite investigations into the continued disappearance of it’s National Organising Secretary, Mr.Jean Damascene Munyeshyaka, who went missing on 27th June. The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda is very concerned and worried that two weeks later, there… Read More

Rwanda seizes Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa’s investment in tea sector and private residence: UTC Founder

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JOHANNESBURG, July 5, 2014 /CNW/ - Rwanda government seized Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa's shares in Nshili Kivu Tea Factory (NKTF) on 25 June 2014. The Commission of Abandoned Properties in Nyaruguru District instructed NKTF to deposit any monies or any other benefits due to Ayabatwa in the District's own bank account for "safekeeping." By this action, government replaced Ayabatwa as shareholder... Read More

Nyamwasa: Museveni wrong on Kagame

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After the third attempt on the life of former Chief of the Rwanda Defence Forces, Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, exiled in South Africa, Robert Mukombozi talked to him recently in an exclusive interview. The exiled general discusses what he calls the dictatorship in Rwanda and compares President Museveni and his own Paul Kagame. Below are excerpts: Let me take you back to the events on… Read More

Rwanda Democratic Green Party’s Organizing Secretary, Jean Damascene MUNYESHYAKA Missing

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Jean Damascene Munyeshyaka missing The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) requests all national security organs to help in finding the whereabouts of its Organizing Secretary Mr.Jean Damascene MUNYESHYAKA, who has been missing since Friday last week (27th June 2014). Mr.Munyeshyaka Jean Damascene was called on phone by an unknown person around 15:00 hrs on Friday in Nyamata town, Bugesera… Read More
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