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- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Rapprochement and opportunity
The meeting between Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Paul Kagame in Kigali on 26 February enables France to regain a foothold in central Africa and allows Rwanda to normalise diplomatic and commercial relations with Paris. Sarkozy did what was necessary to ...
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
A welcome for Monsieur Z
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has asked Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere if he will issue a visa for Protais Zigiranyirazo, known as ‘Monsieur Z’ (AC Vol 50 No 14), brother-in-law of President Juvénal Habyarimana, whose death tri...
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Problems on the home front
Despite President Kagame's rapprochement with both France and Congo-Kinshasa, he faces dissent among some of the former faithful
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Two generals fail to make peace
The divisions in the Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple infuriate Rwandan President Paul Kagame, as he struggles to balance the interests of rival party factions with business and political ties to senior members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front...
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Who gets the money?
The governing Rwandan Patriotic Front has been quarrelling about money as well as politics. In recent years the RPF has been privatising its assets, notably Tri-Star Holdings, a company set up by Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa to run businesses in eastern ...
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Murder mystery solved
Two years of inquiries by a Rwandan committee of experts have ended in the conclusion widely accepted at the time: the Falcon 50 carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994 by Rwandan Hutu extremist soldiers and there was plen...
- Vol 50 No 24
- 04/12/2009
A botched prosecution
Protais Zigiranyirazo, brother-in-law of late Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, was acquitted on appeal by the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on 17 November (AC Vol 50 No 15). Anguished protests followed, from survivors, huma...
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
International justice and its pitfalls
The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no longer fell under the control or influence of one or another superpower. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda ...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
The quest for justice after the genocide continues
The search for justice lumbers on in a costly UN tribunal and national and community courts, but the convictions are relatively few
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
The missing suspects
Thirteen more genocide suspects are sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The United States government's offer of a US$5 million bounty for their arrest has so far helped to bring three suspects before the court, but the trail is gro...
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