Africa Global Village

“It’s every man’s business to see justice done”

July 13, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergAndrew Rwisereka, decapitated, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Frank habineza, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW On 13th July 2012 Mr. Frank Habineza, President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda published a press release asking the Rwandan authorities to re-open the investigation into who murdered Andrew Rwisereka, ex-Vice President of the same party who disappeared on the 13th of July 2010 just one month before the national election in Rwanda. He… Read More

Exiled Rwandan says Kagame hunted him and others

July 12, 2012 Global Authorassassination, General Nyamwasa, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Trial

A prominent Rwandan exile accuses the president of being a dictator, imprisoning political opponents and destabilizing East Africa, adding in an interview Thursday that he believes the leader, who he once served, has hunted him and other dissidents around the world. Kayumba Nyamwasa, once Rwandan President Paul Kagame's army chief, spoke to The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Thursday... Read More

Stop being an Ostrich when it comes to Rwanda’s role in the DRC

June 28, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergClinton, congo, DRC, Friends of Congo, Genocide, Kagame, M23, Mushikiwabo, Obama, RPF, Rwanda, UN Report

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW The Sub Saharan region of Africa has been watched closely by the international community as of late. The news coming out of the region has many human rights activists and organizations’ asking a lot of questions about what is really going on between Rwanda and the DR Congo. Last week on June 19th 2012 President Kagame… Read More

Behind the presidential curtains: Kagame Obsessed with cars and driving

June 23, 2012 Global Authoraccident, Cars, Kagame, motocade, RPF, Rwanda, Village Urugwiro

Sources in Kigali have reported how our President his Excellence Paul Kagame experienced an accident on his way from Village Urugwiro heading to the state house in Kiyovu. At the time of the accident he was driving himself as he has always done, this has prompted me to think back when I was still one of the people responsible for… Read More

The Untold Stories: Does Foreign Aid to Rwanda, Fuel Congo Violence?

June 23, 2012 Global AuthorDR Congo, foreign aid, Genocide, humanitarian crisis, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, war

By: Jacquline Umurungi, Brussels Conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken the lives of 5.4 million people since 1998 and continue to leave as many as 45,000 dead every month, according to a major International Rescue Committee study. The liberal democrat MP in UK representing Portsmouth South with his colleagues has argued… Read More

Hate them for Me: The politics of Rwanda

June 18, 2012 Global AuthorGenocide, graduation, hate, Oskaloosa, Paul Kagame, politics, Protesters, RPF, Rwanda, William Penn University

A few weeks ago President Paul Kagame delivered the commencement speech at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa USA. I attended this event to cover his speech as well as the protester that were there to peacefully object to a learning institution welcoming such a controversial leader. My time was equally spent interviewing protesters; parents, students and listening to President... Read More

President Paul Kagame visiting William Penn University

May 3, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergHuman rights violations, Iowa, kigali, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, WIllian Penn University

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW President Paul Kagame will be addressing William Penn University for their commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 on May 12th, 2012. It is apparent that this school has no idea of his record of human right abuses. At this even he will be receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for his contributions to… Read More

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

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