Rwanda

Rwanda

Population: 10.4 mn.
GDP: 7.0 bn.
Debt: 0.8 bn.
Overview:

Negotiations over international aid, suspended due to Kigali’s support for rebels in Congo-Kinshasa, will dominate Western efforts. Talks in Kampala between rebels and the Kinshasa government will continue. Rwanda will use its position on the United Nations Security Council to mend relations with the United States and Britain, as worries about an economic slowdown hit home.

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  • Vol 54 No 8
  •  12th April 2013

Faustin's pact

Faustin Twagiramungu was Prime Minister in 1994-96, returned from exile to lose the presidential election in 2003 and now wants another start (AC Vol 52 No 3, The political fallout). The first head of government after the genocide of 1994 has pledged to r...

  • Vol 53 No 22
  •  2nd November 2012

Uganda accused

A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended

  • Vol 53 No 21
  •  19th October 2012

M23’s other parent

Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this news was quickly followed by the leak by United Nations officials in New York of...

  • Vol 53 No 19
  •  21st September 2012

New York showdown

Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame take their battles over the Kivu provinces to the UN General Assembly

  • Vol 53 No 15
  •  19th July 2012

M23 makes the running

The mutineers hold the cards and are setting the agenda: they may strike Goma soon

  • Vol 53 No 14
  •  6th July 2012

Rebels aim for Kivu secession

Rwanda not only supports the M23 rebellion, it may be helping create a new state on its border with Congo

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

Kigali’s hand in the Kivus

A UN report on Rwandan backing for mutineers sparks a diplomatic row in New York as the rebels gain ground

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

US 'protecting' Rwanda

While Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tungamulongo, demanded that Rwanda immediately withdraw its support for militia in eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a press conference on 19 June that he rejected all accusation...

  • Vol 53 No 12
  •  8th June 2012

Who fights for whom

Mutinous factions along the border are exploited by both governments, and Hutu-Tutsi quarrels live on

  • 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...

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