Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing friend’ President Paul Kagame on how to streamline government and attract investment. ‘I ...
A Spanish judge has made it unsafe for 40 senior Rwandan officials
to travel outside their own country by issuing international arrest
warrants against them for crimes including genocide, allegedly
committed in the 1990s. Judge Fernando Andreu made his...
Wooing the Commonwealth is only one of Rwanda’s approaches to its region and the wider world
Rwanda became a virtual member of the Commonwealth at
its 23-25 November summit in Kampala, partly due to President
Yoweri Museveni's energetic support for visiting President
Paul Kagame and the pair's determination to show their
bilateral problems ha...
Diplomatic relations between France and Rwanda may be on the
mend. Rwanda broke them off in November 2006, after a French judge,
Jean-Louis Bruguière, issued arrest warrants against
nine of President Paul Kagame's senior officials, alleging
the...
The Kigali government's plan to provide air traffic control
systems across the whole of central Africa, where airspace is
mostly unmonitored, could earn Rwanda as much as US$156 million
a year, outstripping current earnings from tea and coffee exports.
On 19 April, the trial opened of the man accused of causing
the death of ten United Nations' peacekeepers on 7 April 1994.
The indictment says Major Bernard Ntuyahaga ordered the
Belgian 'blue helmets' who were escorting Premier Agathe Uwilingiyimana
...
A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm
If Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière obtains the international
warrants issued in France, nine people will be
targets for arrest if they enter the European Union and other
countries . . .
On 17 December, a naked and mutilated corpse turned up in a
Brussels canal. Five days later, after DNA tests, it was identified
as that of Juvénal Uwingiliyimana, 54, a Rwandan
refugee in Belgium since 1998, who had disappeared from his Brussels...
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