Africa Global Village

How Has President Paul Kagame Performed Economically Since 2000?

April 20, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author3rd term, David Himbara, Election, foreign aid, Kagame, Obama, Rwanda, World Development Bank

By: Dr. David Himbara The one-sided debate inside Rwanda that calls for 3rd presidential term for Kagame pushes the line that he is a rare and economic miracle performer. But hold on. Take look at this data from the just published 2015 World Development Indicators by the World Bank. We can use the indicators to make evidence-based judgment on what… Read More

Stop ignoring massacres in Africa

April 7, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergCNN, DRC, Fox News, Garissa University, Kagame, kenya, Massacres, MSNBC, Museveni, Obama, Terrorism, Uganda, War on Terror

By: Jennifer Fierberg We live in a world filled with terrorist attacks. So much so that they become the noise of the nightly news that most Westerners ignore. Simply watching the nightly news or scanning social media for a few minutes will typically reveal the horrors of terrorism in all corners of the world. However, why do some attacks garner… Read More

Norway’s Supreme Court Upholds Extradition Of Rwanda Genocide Suspect

February 10, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg1994, Eugene Nkuranyabahizi, Genocide, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda

Norway’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday in Oslo, that a 42-year-old, Eugene Nkuranyabahizi should be extradited to Rwanda to stand trial over alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in the Central African country. Nkuranyabahizi, a former school teacher, was accused of taking part in massacres that killed about 7,500 people. The four judges were unanimous in their ruling, which upheld two lower… Read More

U.S. envoy urges Congo to set date for presidential election

February 10, 2015 Global Authorcongo, DRC, elections, John Kerry, Kabila, Kagame, Obama, Rwanda

By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo should promptly set a date for a presidential election in 2016, a senior U.S. envoy said on Monday, increasing international pressure on President Joseph Kabila to step down at the polls next year. Last month, street protests killed 42 people and forced lawmakers to drop an electoral reform bill the… Read More

Alex Obote-Odora’s Dishonest Response to Peterson and Herman on the ICTR and BBC

January 16, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author1994, Alex Obote-Odora, assassination, BBC, Habyarimana, ICTR, Kagame, Rwanda

Alex Obote-Odora’s dishonest response to us on the ICTR and BBC Edward S. Herman and David Peterson It is widely recognized by independent analysts and observers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that it is a creature largely of the United States and Britain, established in late 1994 to support the Rwandan dictatorship of Paul Kagame’s Tutsi-led Rwandan… Read More

SA heads for new DRC war

January 14, 2015 Global AuthorDRC, FDLR, Kagame, Kerry, Obama, Rebels, Rwanda, South Africa, UN, Zuma

South Africa has 1000 troops in the DRC as part of the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade, which is tasked with “neutralising” threats to the region. File photoImage by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS The government yesterday announced that a confrontation with Forces for Democratic Liberation of Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo was “inevitable”. Four thousand FDLR soldiers, many of… Read More

Congo-Kinshasa: Extending the FDLR Disarmament Deadline Will Only Prolong the Agony

January 12, 2015 Global Authorcongo, FDLR, ICGLR, Kabila, Kagame, Kikwete, SADC, South Africa, Tanzania, Zuma

This week all eyes were to be on the joint summit between the South African Development Community (SADC) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes (ICGLR) that was proposed by South African President Jacob Zuma earlier this month, but this event has now been cancelled, apparently at the behest of Angola, which currently holds the presidency of the ICGLR.… Read More

Tanzania: We won’t be ready to join any combined attack against the rebels because not all people in eastern DR Congo are FDLR rebels

January 12, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg1994, congo, DRC, FDLR, Genocide, Kabila, Kagame, Kikwete, Rebels, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tanzania, war

“As a country (Tanzania) we won’t be ready to join any combined attack against the rebels because not all people in eastern DR Congo are FDLR rebels,” Bernard Membe, Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs told the media in Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania, hence rejecting, for some observers, the urgency of conducting military operations against Rwandan rebels and refugees based in Eastern Democratic… Read More

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AS THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARES WAR AND ABANDONS RWANDANS AGAIN

January 9, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author1994, Ban Ki-Moon, Genocide, John Kerry, Kagame, MONUSCO, Obama, rudasingwa, Rwanda, UN, war

Today, 8 January 2015, is another landmark date in the continuing tragic story of Rwanda and the Great Lakes region. The President of the UN Security Council has just issued a statement declaring war against the FDRL. This comes after U.S Special Envoy to the Great Lakes, Russ Feingold, sounded the trumpet call on 30 December 2014. The coercive will… Read More

What Will Likely Become The Ugliest “Non-Political” Fight In Post-Kagame Rwanda?

January 7, 2015October 20, 2016 Global AuthorCrystal Ventures, David Himbara, Kagame, Paul Kagame, politics, RPF, Rwanda

(Editors note: The following article was written by Dr. David Himbara in January of 2013, A Rwanda native, Mr. Himbara spent a total of six years working for President Paul Kagame: from 2006 to 2010 as the head of strategy and policy in the Office of the President and from 2000 to 2002 as the principal private secretary to the president.… Read More

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