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Rwanda: There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth

April 21, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergdefamation, gahima, Jennifer Fierberg, Paul Kagame, RPF, rudasingwa, Rwanda, Rwanda National Congress, slander, The Exposer

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In an ironic analysis of the media situation in Rwanda, the publication, East African Business Week of Kampala, published a piece on March 26, 2012 entitled “Rwanda: Nation Moves to Improve Media Image” (http://allafrica.com/stories/201203261576.html). However, Rwanda has just kicked their worst tabloid/gossip paper into high gear. Rwanda has created a news website devoted to discrediting opposition… Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Testifies in front of Judge Trevidic

April 21, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergassassination, France, Genocide, Habyarimana, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Trevidic

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW On 20 April 2012 Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa testified in front of Judge Trevidic in France for over six hours. He reported that he testified to all that he knew regarding the shooting down of former President Habyarimanas airplane in April of 1994 just before the genocide started. His testimony included the information in his published confession… Read More

RWANDA: URGENT APPEAL TO STOP INTIMIDATION OF DEFENSE WITNESSES IN INGABIRE POLITICAL TRIAL

April 13, 2012 Global AuthorBoniface Twagirimana, FDU, kigali, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Victorie Ingabire

Press Release: Call to action from the International Community and Friends of Rwanda Defense witness Colonel Michel Habimana who revealed yesterday that the terror case against the opposition leader Ingabire was trumped up by intelligence services in order to stifle her political ambitions, is under heavy intimidation and threats in order to change his story. The State machinery has embarked… Read More

Rwanda Peoples Party Calls for an end to the ongoing Grenade attacks in Rwanda

April 2, 2012 Global AuthorGrenade attacks, Kagame, kigali, Peace, RPF, Rwanda

Gothenburg – Sweden, 31/03/12 Our Ref: RPP-KRN/30M/JK-1730/12/JVK/KRN-GA03 Ref: KIGALI – GRENADES ATTACKS Today, another day another tragedy has blanketed our country as the people of Rwanda have continued to endure the most persistent brutality of killings and persecutions for over five decades. This has also been attributed to by the total incompetence and failures of all Rwanda governments that come… Read More

Rwandan Opposition Members continue to be under attack

March 15, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergBonifice Twagirimana, FDU-INKINGI, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Trial, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

By Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In a press release by the FDU-INKINGI party on Monday March 12, 2012 they had the following to state about the ongoing trial of Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza: RWANDA: INGABIRE POLITICAL TRIAL RESUMES. THE HIGH COURT SUSPENDS DEBATES ON GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS UNTIL CONSTITUTIONALITY RULING. MARCH 12, 2012 Kigali, 12 March 2012 On 12 March 2012, the… Read More

A New Hope, Victoire Ingabire

March 14, 2012 Global AuthorFDU-INKINGI, Genocidaire, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Supreme Court, Trial, victoire ingabire

Rwandan opposition politician, Victoire Ingabire, wins a partial victory in the first round in her fight against the country’s laws governing genocide ideology. High Court judges in Rwanda have partially suspended the trial of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza until the country’s Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the genocide ideology laws she is challenging–laws that allow for the… Read More

Behind the Presidential Curtain: President Kagame and his house staff

March 7, 2012 Global AuthorBehind the presidential Curtain, Noble Marara, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda

By: Noble Marara In 1994, our soldiers went out from Byumba to Musha, when I talk of our soldiers I mean the high command alongside President Kagame, they found a child of three years old her parents had been killed. Though she was three she had been sent to explain more about herself. She was unable to provide her own… Read More

Rwanda: Peaceful change is not dangerous

March 7, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergcongo, john karuranga, Kagame, Peace, refugees, RPF, Rwanda, Rwanda peoples party

In an interview conducted with John V. Karuranga, President of the Rwanda Peoples Party, who lives in exile he expresses his current concerns for Rwanda and his vision of a peaceful and prosperous nation. JF: Did the interview you recently did with a local online news outlet in Rwanda reach the intended audience and what was the reaction? Yes, it… Read More

RWANDA: AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO EMBEZZLE PUBLIC FUNDS WITH IMPUNITY

March 6, 2012 Global Authorembezzlement, Kagame, money, RPF, Rwanda

Kigali, February 23, 2012. Over 20 billion (20,000,000,000) Frw or $40 million US dollars have been embezzled from Rwanda national treasury. One gets these numbers by putting together figures and spreadsheets that were recently made public in a report written by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), a commission of the Rwandan legislative assembly, in charge of monitoring the utilization of… Read More

Rwanda urged to end clampdown on dissent as Charles Ntakirutinka released

March 1, 2012 Global AuthorCharles Ntakirutinka, democracy, Paul Kagame, politics, RPF, Rwanda

The release today of a former government minister following a decade in prison has prompted Amnesty International to call for an end to the ongoing persecution of political opponents and journalists in Rwanda. “Charles Ntakirutinka spent 10 years of his life in prison because he formed a political party,” said Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty International’s Africa Director. “Ten years… Read More

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