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What the world hears Rwanda does not

May 3, 2012 Global AuthorCPJ, Didas Gasana, McDowell Kalisa, media freedoms, Nelson Gatsimbzi, Paul Kagame, Press, Robert Seburfurira. Rwanda, RPF, Rwanda Journalists in exile, World Press Freedom Day

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that 18 independent Rwandan journalists live in exile. Additionally, four journalists have been murdered with their cases having gone unsolved let alone investigated. The regional contrast to Rwanda and media freedoms, CPJ reports, that in the last ten years the DRC has three journalists who have fled into exile, Libya reports one and... Read More

General Bosco Ntaganda wanted dead or alive by Rwandan Special Forces

April 24, 2012 Global AuthorBosco Ntaganda, congo, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, War criminals

In a meeting held in Gisenyi which was attended by the head of Congolese intelligence, the head of the eastern Congo soldiers and General James Kabarebe Rwanda’s minister of defence as well as Gen Charles Kayonga Rwanda’s army Chief and Maj Franco head of external operations President Paul Kagame of Rwanda instructed his soldiers to kill Bosco Ntaganda. In this… Read More

Behind The Presidential Curtains: Does history really repeat itself?

April 24, 2012 Global Authordictator, Idi Amin, Paul Kagme, RPF, Rwanda, The Exposer

When I was growing up as a young man in Uganda, I was told many stories about the greatest dictator President General Idi Amin Dada until his fall in 1979 by Tanzanian forces. I was too young to experience his atrocities but my family like other citizens surely had live under his terror for numerous years. A few years after… Read More

Rwanda: There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth

April 21, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergdefamation, gahima, Jennifer Fierberg, Paul Kagame, RPF, rudasingwa, Rwanda, Rwanda National Congress, slander, The Exposer

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In an ironic analysis of the media situation in Rwanda, the publication, East African Business Week of Kampala, published a piece on March 26, 2012 entitled “Rwanda: Nation Moves to Improve Media Image” (http://allafrica.com/stories/201203261576.html). However, Rwanda has just kicked their worst tabloid/gossip paper into high gear. Rwanda has created a news website devoted to discrediting opposition… Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Testifies in front of Judge Trevidic

April 21, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergassassination, France, Genocide, Habyarimana, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Trevidic

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW On 20 April 2012 Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa testified in front of Judge Trevidic in France for over six hours. He reported that he testified to all that he knew regarding the shooting down of former President Habyarimanas airplane in April of 1994 just before the genocide started. His testimony included the information in his published confession… Read More

Democratic Republic of Congo: Military Reform Urgently Needed

April 16, 2012 Global AuthorDRC, Kabila, OSISA

Kinshasa, April 16, 2012 - The international community and Congolese government must urgently agree upon a new deal to reform the Congolese military, according to a new report by 13 leading international and Congolese civil society groups. The report argues that the lack of political will to reform the security sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) risks... Read More

RWANDA: URGENT APPEAL TO STOP INTIMIDATION OF DEFENSE WITNESSES IN INGABIRE POLITICAL TRIAL

April 13, 2012 Global AuthorBoniface Twagirimana, FDU, kigali, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Victorie Ingabire

Press Release: Call to action from the International Community and Friends of Rwanda Defense witness Colonel Michel Habimana who revealed yesterday that the terror case against the opposition leader Ingabire was trumped up by intelligence services in order to stifle her political ambitions, is under heavy intimidation and threats in order to change his story. The State machinery has embarked… Read More

Congo president calls for arrest of wanted warlord

April 11, 2012 Global AuthorBosco Ntaganda, Child Soldiers, congo, Kabila, Kinshasa, war

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — In a marked turnaround, Congo’s president called Wednesday for the arrest of a notorious ex-warlord and army general, who has been allowed to walk freely despite an international indictment, an official said. Bosco Ntaganda is accused of using child soldiers for fighting in Ituri, in northeastern Congo, from 2002 to 2003. He was first indicted on… Read More

Gerald Gahima: “Root Causes of Conflict Must be Addressed”

April 9, 2012 Global Author18th anniversary, 1994, Genocide, Gerald Gahima, remembrance, Rwanda, violence

As Rwanda commemorates 18 years since the genocide that claimed the lives of some 800,000 people, a former Rwanda chief prosecutor has warned that the likelihood of renewed conflict, even conflict along sectarian lines, is very real in Rwanda. Gerald Gahima said the Rwandan society has the challenge of ensuring that violence like that experienced in the past does not… Read More

RPP: THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE 18TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE

April 6, 2012 Global Author1994, Genocide, hutu, john karuranga, Rememberance, Rwanda peoples party, Tutsi

Gothenburg, Sweden, 2012/04/07 Our ref: RPP/01/18ARG/R01/2105/JVK/07A12-GS Fellow Rwandan and friends of Rwanda today is 18 years since the 1994 genocide that visited our country and people. This is not a week for a political statement but for the Rwandan people to display unreservedly their unified strong stand in denouncing the grim horror of the 90 days of relentless and… Read More

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