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What is really behind President Kagames anger at France?

April 8, 2014March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg1994, gahima, Genocide, Kagame, RNC, rudasingwa, Rwanda

By Jennifer Fierberg In a surprising turn of events, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda made disparaging comments about France’s role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. In response, the French delegation cancelled their plans deciding not to participate in the 20th Commemoration ceremonies of the Rwandan Genocide. France and Rwanda have had strained relations for many years due to numerous… Read More

Poverty Is a Moral Problem

April 3, 2014 Global AuthorBill Easterly, Kagame, poverty, Rick Warren, Rwanda

William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University, is one of the most prominent iconoclasts in the field of international aid. In 2006 he published White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. Kent Annan (Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle; After Shock) talked with him on… Read More

Patrick Karegeya: Mysterious death of a Rwandan exile

March 30, 2014 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

Col Patrick Karegeya’s death served as a stark warning to exiled Rwandan dissidents. PHOTO | FILE A murdered former Rwandan intelligence chief was advising South African and Tanzanian intelligence as they prepared to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to battle the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23, BBC has learned. On New Year’s Eve, Rwanda’s former chief of external… Read More

20th anniversary of Rwandan Genocide commemorated by Paul Rusesabagina

March 30, 2014 Global Author1994, Genocide, Hotel Rwanda, Kagame, Paul Rusesabagina, Rwanda

As the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide draws near, one of the event’s most well-known figures, Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” spoke at Rackham Auditorium to more than 700 people as part of the University’s commemoration of the ethnic cleansing. During his address, Rusesabagina outlined the history of the Rwandan Civil War, as… Read More

Rwanda: BRD Is Up For Sale

March 30, 2014 Global AuthorInvestments, Kagame, RDB, Rwanda

By Bosco Mutarambirwa, MBA Rwanda: BRD Is Up For SalePaul Kagame needs cash, and he needs it now. Desperately. Now he’s selling Rwanda Development Bank (BRD), whose CEO Turatsinze he had to assassinate awhile ago in Mozambique. Yet, Kagame’s stated reason to raise capital for the bank is the very corruption culture that the late CEO was trying to eradicated… Read More

Exposed: Rwanda’s plan to falsely implicate Kayumba Nyamwasa in Grenade attacks

March 27, 2014 Global AuthorGrenade attacks, Kagame, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Press Freedoms, Rwanda, Rwanda Police

Information into our newsroom from Rwanda yesterday states that there was a meeting at the headquarters of Police between IGP Gasana and the Media. Among the people invited were selected journalists such as Burasa of Rushyashya, Robert Mugabe of Great Lakes Voices, Muvunyi Fred who was standing in for the head of journalist known as RMC, Andrew Mwenda who is… Read More

S.Africa, Rwanda agree to resolve diplomatic row

March 26, 2014 Global AuthorDiplomacy, Kagame, Karegeya, Nyamwasa, Rwanda, South Africa, Zuma

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame/FILE JOHANNESBURG, Mar 26 – Pretoria and Kigali have agreed to resolve a furious diplomatic row sparked by attacks on Rwandan dissidents exiled in Johannesburg, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday. Speaking after meeting Tuesday in the Angolan capital Luanda with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, Zuma told public broadcaster SABC that the two leaders… Read More

The Paul Kagame Doctrine After 20 Years

March 26, 2014 Global AuthorAngola, Kagame, Museveni, Rwanda, South Africa, Theogene Rudasingwa, Zuma

African leaders have just concluded a mini summit in Luanda, Angola, to discuss the conflict in DRC and the diplomatic showdown between South Africa and Rwanda. It is reported, as usual, that a “Luanda Declaration” was signed, and President Zuma and President Kagame “agreed” to talk to “resolve” the impasse between their two countries. The latest quarrel between South Africa and… Read More

Uganda: Rwandan refugees in danger

March 26, 2014 Global Authorabduction, Kagame, refugees, Rwanda, Uganda

DECLARATION OF CLIIR March 25, 2014 UGANDA: Rwandan refugees in danger In recent days, the Centre for the Fight against Impunity and Injustice in Rwanda (CLIIR) found an unusual increase in disappearances and political killings both inside and outside Rwanda. The most recent cases are those of Colonel Patrick Karegeya (a leader of the RNC, Rwandese National Congress)… Read More

Rwanda – Authorities hound independent journalists at home and abroad

March 19, 2014 Global AuthorKagame, Media, murder, Press, Reporters without borders, Rwanda

Reporters Without Borders condemns the Rwandan government’s lack of transparency and its unacceptable acts of harassment and intimidation of journalists with the aim of suppressing freedom of information and independent reporting. Rwandan journalists have been the victims of the government’s harassment for years, but the targets have for some also included foreign journalists, especially Ugandan ones. “The Rwandan government often… Read More

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