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The Paul Kagame Doctrine After 20 Years

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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

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     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

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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

Kigali vs Pretoria-The Congolese Cold War

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Over the last couple of months the Rwandan government has been aggressively pursuing alleged perpetuators of the brutal genocide that occurred in the 1990s. In this regard the Rwandan government has actively supported the assassination of political activists in exile in South Africa. The former intelligence Chief Patrick Karegeya was found murdered in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg at the… Read More

South African Minister Circulates Warning to Rwanda

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Pretoria, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) South Africa warned today that this country would prevent by all means illegal activities on its national territory by any foreign Government, a statement interpreted by the media as a warning to Rwanda. Diplomatic relations between both African countries have been tense since the past week, when Pretoria and Kigali decreed reciprocal expulsions of diplomats,… Read More

Rwanda-SA diplomatic stand-off enters fifth day

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/CHRIS JACKSON   THE US on Monday urged Rwanda to leave exiled opponents in peace as a diplomatic stand-off about attacks on Rwandese in South Africa went into a fifth day. South Africa’s cluster of security ministers was understood to have met for several hours on Monday to weigh a measured response to the… Read More

President Kagame imprisoning students

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Open Letter addressed to President Paul Kagame demanding immediate release of Jean Baptiste ICYITONDERWA and stop terrorist acts against leaders of Rwandan students Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa: one of the four who are still detained by the police and whose head has been seriously injured by the beating according to sources in Kigali. With his colleague Emmanuel Ntakirutimana, they are in a… Read More

Congo militia leader ordered rapes, massacres: prosecutor

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Defense Counsel Marc Desalliers (R) and Caroline Buteau look on during the case against Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, February 10, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS/UNITED PHOTOS/POOL (Reuters) – A Congolese militia leader widely known as “the Terminator” led fighters, including child soldiers, in a campaign of ethnically-motivated rape and murder, the International… Read More

Rwanda: The Three Mistakes of Paul Kagame

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On January 1, 2014, the media reported the murder in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, a Rwandan once close to Paul Kagame (Rwanda’s President) and former Head of Foreign Intelligence Services of his country before being an outcast for becoming a fierce political opponent of a regime he had helped to establish in Rwanda. With the maturity and... Read More

In Rwanda, a deadly fight among the ruling elite

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 (Carl Court, File, Pool/ Associated Press ) – FILE – In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in central London. Critics of Rwanda’s government say the killing in… Read More