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Elections are too important for Rwandan government to leave to the whims of voters

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 By Kris Berwouts With three quarters of the votes counted, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) is heading for an overwhelming victory in the legislative elections. The RPF has mobilised 76% of the voters, against 13 and 9.4 percent respectively for the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party. These results deserve our respect and congratulations – perhaps not for their democratic… Read More

Rwandan opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda in peril after prison hunger strike

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by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News, broadcast Sept. 15, 2013 Transcript KPFA Evening News Anchor David Rosenberg: Rwandan opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda is reported to be in perilous condition after going on a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions in Rwanda’s Mpanga Prison, which is also known as Rwanda’s Guantanamo. Rwanda has been a close ally and military partner of the… Read More

Rwanda, M23 and the UNSC

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By Jennifer Fierberg   Rwandan President Paul Kagame speaks at the United Nations. The United Nations demonstrated hypocrisy in its decision to grant Rwanda a seat on its Security Council (UNSC) despite the country’s well-documented history of destabilization in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  The UN’s actions are antithetical to the stated goals and vision of… Read More

The law of the jungle

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PRESIDENT KAGAME’S CRUSADE TO CONFISCATE RWANDA’S MAJOR COMMERCIAL CENTER: Legal opinion By: Charles Kambanda The Union Trade Center (UTC) is Rwanda’s largest shopping mall. UTC Ltd. Is the sole owner of UTC mall; Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is UTC Ltd. major shareholder. The mall is valued at $20 million (USD); it is the major commercial center in Rwanda. Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa… Read More

Former president Kagame’ s bodyguard kidnapped

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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

Rwanda opposition party to sit out vote after late registration

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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

U.S. tells Rwanda to immediately end support for M23 rebels

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  WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:06pm EDT (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday called on Rwanda to end support for M23 rebels in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, saying there was evidence Rwandan military officials were involved. “We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support for the M23 (and) withdraw military personnel from eastern DRC,” State Department spokeswoman Jen… Read More