Africa Global Village

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.”

November 8, 2013 Global Authorhuman rights watch, Kagame, Museveni, Obama, refugees, Rwanda, Uganda, UNHCR

AMAHORO PEOPLE’S CONGRESS*RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS*FDU-INKINGI H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President, Republic of Uganda. November 7, 2013. Your Excellency, Re: Treatment of Rwandan Asylum Seekers and Refugees Living in Uganda We, the undersigned, have been compelled by recent events to write to Your Excellency on behalf of the organizations we serve to express our grave concerns for the security of some… Read More

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny”

November 7, 2013March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Joel Mutabazi, Kagame, Nyamwasa, Obama, RNC, rudasingwa, Rwanda, Uganda, UNHCR

By: Jennifer Fierberg “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” On October 25, 2013, former Rwandan Presidential bodyguard and RDF soldier, Lt. Joel Mutabazi, was abducted from a UNHCR safe house in Uganda where he was in… Read More

Forcibly displaced in South Kivu face a struggle to survive

March 14, 2012 Global AuthorDRC, FDLR, Kalehe, Kivu, Mai Mai Rape, refugees, Rwanda, UNHCR

14 March 2012 Some of the people forced to flee Shabunda wait for assistance in a neighbouring territory in South Kivu province. Survival is a challenge. BUNYAKIRI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, March 14 (2012) – Claudine* and her husband Pierre* fled their village in eastern Congo in early January and found shelter with thousands of others in Bunyakiri commune.… Read More

Fahamu, “Opposing Cessation of Protection for Rwandan Refugees”

October 23, 2011March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg1951 convention, amnesty internationa., cessation, Fahamu refugee programme, human rights watch, refugee, Rwanda, UNHCR

By Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In their most recent move to stop the Cessation of Protection of Rwandan Refugees, Fahamu stated the following in their petition to their supporter; “On December 31, 2011, the UN High Commissioner for the Refugees and several states hosting Rwandan refugees are considering invoking the ‘cessation clause’ of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of… Read More

West Africa

The Rwandan Government: When the tree falls, birds are in misery

October 10, 2011March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergforeign aid, France, government, money, Parliament, Paul Kagame, politics, Rwanda, Senate, Theogene Rudasingwa, UNHCR

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In the small country of Rwanda buried deep in the heart of Africa continues to make loud noises despite their assumed desire to keep things quiet and inconspicuous. Within this small country lies a government that oppresses its own people through intimidation, lack of open political space and fear to speak honestly and openly about the… Read More

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“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.”

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny”

Forcibly displaced in South Kivu face a struggle to survive

Fahamu, “Opposing Cessation of Protection for Rwandan Refugees”

The Rwandan Government: When the tree falls, birds are in misery