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Patrick Karegeya: Mysterious death of a Rwandan exile

March 30, 2014 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

Col Patrick Karegeya’s death served as a stark warning to exiled Rwandan dissidents. PHOTO | FILE A murdered former Rwandan intelligence chief was advising South African and Tanzanian intelligence as they prepared to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to battle the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23, BBC has learned. On New Year’s Eve, Rwanda’s former chief of external… Read More

S.Africa, Rwanda agree to resolve diplomatic row

March 26, 2014 Global AuthorDiplomacy, Kagame, Karegeya, Nyamwasa, Rwanda, South Africa, Zuma

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame/FILE JOHANNESBURG, Mar 26 – Pretoria and Kigali have agreed to resolve a furious diplomatic row sparked by attacks on Rwandan dissidents exiled in Johannesburg, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday. Speaking after meeting Tuesday in the Angolan capital Luanda with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, Zuma told public broadcaster SABC that the two leaders… Read More

The Paul Kagame Doctrine After 20 Years

March 26, 2014 Global AuthorAngola, Kagame, Museveni, Rwanda, South Africa, Theogene Rudasingwa, Zuma

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

Why SA should suspend diplomatic relations with Rwanda

March 19, 2014 Global AuthorDavid Himbara, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

By David Himbara Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said on March 12 South Africa had evidence linking the three expelled Rwandan diplomats to “illegal activities.” The activities in question included yet another attack on the exiled former Rwandan army chief of staff Kayumba Nyamwasa. There is nothing new about Rwanda’s illegal activities in foreign countries, including South Africa. The initial… Read More

Kigali vs Pretoria-The Congolese Cold War

March 18, 2014 Global Authorcongo, DRC, Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, Zuma

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

Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs should explain diplomatic rift with South Africa

March 17, 2014 Global AuthorDGPR, Rwanda, South Africa

The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda is deeply concerned with the escalating diplomatic stand-off between Rwanda and South Africa. This comes after the reciprocal expulsion of diplomats from both missions and the non-issuance of visas to Rwandans by the South African Embassy in Kigali. . Read More

SA deports Malawians for staying illegally as more wait at detention immigration centre

March 13, 2014 Global AuthorHudson Mankhwala, Malawi, Malawi Migration to SA, South Africa

BLANTYRE--Malawians who were staying in South Africa without valid travel documents have arrived in the country following the sweeping exercise which is taking place in richest African country. Malawi’s Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala has confirmed the development. According to Mankhwala, the deportees were staying in South Africa without ‘valid work permits and travel documents. . Read More

South African Minister Circulates Warning to Rwanda

March 12, 2014 Global AuthorKagame, Karegeya, Kayumba, Nyamwasa, Pretoria, Rwanda, South Africa

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

March 11, 2014 Global AuthorDiplomatic relations, government, Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, Zuma

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

“Shut up or I’ll kill you”

March 5, 2014March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergassassination, Johannesburg, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

By: Jennifer Fierberg General Kayumba Nyamwasa residence attacked by gunmen in Johannesburg (South Africa) Over ten years ago Allison Des Forges, the first prominent researcher on Rwanda and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, wrote about Kagame and how he eliminates his political dissidents with impunity. Kagame goes to great lengths to imprison, kill or drive into exile and then even hunts… Read More

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