Winning hearts and budgets

Doubts about President Paul Kagame's landslide election victory are unlikely to bring a fall in Western aid to Kigali but funding will come under heavier scrutiny as concern grows about authoritarianism and human rights abuses. The biggest concern remains Rwanda's operations - overt and covert - in neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa.

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Paul Kagame, Congo-Kinshasa, United States, George W. Bush, Jendayi, Frazer, Walter, J. Kansteiner, Aubrey Hooks, William, Swing, Netherlands, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, French, Belgian, Dominique de Villepin, British, Jack Straw, Valerie Amos, Donald Kaberuka, Israel, Ugandan

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