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Rwanda
Population: 10.3 mn.
GDP: 5.6 bn.
Debt: 0.4 bn.
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Regional ructions in Congo-Kinshasa and Burundi will temper international criticism of President Paul Kagame's authoritarian style. The UK remains a close ally. Difficult relations with South Africa after men arrested in Pretoria are charged with trying to assassinate some of Kagame's opponents.

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Crash goes the conspiracy

Relations between Rwanda and France have received another boost. On 11 January, French judges Nathalie Poux and Marc Trévidic cleared the ruling Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) of shooting down the aeroplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Prosperity and paranoia

Sinister rumours and grenade attacks coexist with the government’s proud economic record

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

The political fallout

Opposition forces, some armed and some civilian, intensify their campaigns against the regime in Kigali

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Kagame’s troops return to Congo

Chaos in the Kivus has given Kigali a pretext to send its soldiers back across the border in pursuit of political and economic objectives

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Kigali wins another round of the blame game

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held an emergency meeting with President Paul Kagame in Kigali on 8 September after the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping missions. Kigali’s logic was unassailable. A draft UN repor...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

The UN’s credibility on the line

Relations with the United Nations in general have taken a heavy hit. Kigali accuses the UN of leaking the report to distract attention from the inadequacies of its force in Congo-Kinshasa, renamed as the Mission de l’organisation des nations unies pour la...

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

The polls close but violence continues

A grenade attack greets President Kagame’s reelection – and another army officer heads to gaol

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

The assassin’s hand

Violence and intrigue – at home and abroad – overshadow the impending elections

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

World cup shooting

The would-be killers who bungled an attack on dissident Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa seem to have thought that the World Cup would divert police attention from their operation in broad daylight at a Johannesburg shopping centre on 19 June. Yet...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

FPR dissidents break cover

Some former allies of President Kagame lead a campaign against him as grenades explode in Kigali and dissidents are accused of terrorism

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