Rwanda

Rwanda

Population: 10.0 million
GDP: $5000 million
Debt: $16.7% of GDP
Overview:

President Paul Kagame will certainly win the presidential elections in August and opposition candidates will face major strictures even if his tenuous deal with Kinshasa starts to unravel with fresh violence in Eastern Congo.

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  • Vol 51 No 17
  • 27/08/2010

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
  • 09/07/2010

The assassin’s hand

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

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

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
  • 19/03/2010

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

  • Vol 51 No 6
  • 19/03/2010

The President's would-be rivals

Lieutenant General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa has often been seen as a potential rival to President Paul Kagame. He enlisted among the Inkotanyi Tutsi exiles in Uganda who formed the Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR, Rwandan Patriotic Front), at first as a s...

  • 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 ...

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