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Rwanda: The Other Face of Kigali

August 19, 2013 Global Authordevelopment, Kagame, kigali, Rwanda, Slum

Kigali city is well-known for cleanliness and being well lit at night. Palm trees are ubiquitous on Kigali’s streets. Streets are all paved and strips of lawn in this town is what you see when you visit. Skyscrapers are coming up. The city is home of upscale residences of ministers, diplomats and expatriates. Their mansions have neatly manicured lawns. Serenity… Read More

Former president Kagame’ s bodyguard kidnapped

August 14, 2013 Global AuthorBOdyguard, Kagame, Kampala, Rwanda

A former bodyguard to president Kagame who fled Rwanda to Uganda went missing since Aug 12, 2013. Kalisa Innocent Kalisa Innocent worked with President Kagame as a close bodyguard. He was jailed after he was suspected to corroborate with the jailed Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire of FDU? Yesterday, Kalisa was walking on the streets of Kampala when unidentified cars surrounded… Read More

Whose Government Is It Anyway

August 13, 2013 Global AuthorDeo Lukyamuzi, government, Kagame, Rwanda

By Deo Lukyamuzi Abraham Lincoln, American 16th President is credited with what has become a universally famous quote, “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. He coined these wise words during a brief speech he made at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, in honour of the fallen soldiers of the American Civil war. Many people around the world yearn for… Read More

Rwanda opposition party to sit out vote after late registration

August 12, 2013 Global AuthorFrank habineza, Green Party, Kagame, Opposition, Rwanda

Rwanda’s Democratic Green Party said on Monday it will sit out September’s parliamentary election after the electoral commission took three years to register it, finally doing so just days before the deadline. Analysts say President Paul Kagame has a well-documented record of blocking, threatening or infiltrating rival parties to stifle even nascent political opposition, and that the belated registration of… Read More

Empowering women empowers the world

August 9, 2013March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Micro-Finance, rape, sexual violence, SowHope, Vision-GRAM International

By: Jennifer Fierberg The eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been mired in violence perpetrated by various rebel groups in geo-strategic and ethnic wars for the last two decades. This area of the DRC is rich in mineral wealth that foreign countries seek to use in many electronic and travel innovations. Unfortunately, access to these… Read More

Please ignore Rwanda

August 8, 2013 Global AuthorElection, Hotel Rwanda, RPF, Rusesabagina, Rwanda

An Open Letter to the International Community: Please ignore Rwanda. Please ignore Rwanda. Parliamentary elections are coming up in Rwanda this September, and the world should ignore them. You read this correctly. I am not asking for election monitors, nor intervention, nor even international observers. We already know how these elections will turn out, so why bother? The… Read More

World Bank Approves $340 Million for Africa Hydro-Power Project

August 7, 2013 Global AuthorBurundi, hydroelectric Project, Rwanda, Tanzania, World Bank

The World Bank said its board approved $340 million of financing for a hydroelectric project intended to provide electricity to 62 million people in Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi. The Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project has a total cost of $468.6 million and will eventually have generation capacity of 80 megawatts, according to a statement released today by the Washington-based bank. Each… Read More

Rwanda: The population forced to make contributions to fund farcical parliamentary elections.

August 7, 2013 Global Authorelections, FDU, Fraud, Parliament, RPF, Rwanda

The RPF regime INKOTANYI is in full gear preparing parliamentary elections on September 16,2013 in which no individual or party critical of the regime will take part. Leaders of key opposition parties are in jail for politically motivated reasons. These include the chair of FDU-Inkingi Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Bernard Ntaganda, chair of PS Imberakuri, Deo Mushayidi of Chair PDP/Imanzi… Read More

DR Congo rebels face disarmament deadline today

August 2, 2013 Global AuthorDRC, M23, MONUSCO, Rebels, Rwanda

Congolese government army soldiers stay concealed at an attack position near Munigi, overlooking the front-line, where they are fighting against M23 rebels outside the eastern Congolese city of Goma, July 15, 2013. – Reuters picKINSHASA, Aug 1 — Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline today to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed… Read More

From Rwanda to opportunity in land of the free

August 2, 2013 Global Authorhuman rights, refugee, RNC, Rwanda, US

TurayishimyeLaw student Jean Paul Turayishimye laughs during an interview at his Leominster home.(T&G Staff / Rick Cinclair)» Enlarge photo LEOMINSTER — His American friends tell him it seems more like a movie than real life, when he shares some of the horrific violence and corruption that exists back home in the jungles of Central Africa. The exiled Rwandan’s… Read More

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