- Vol 51 No 6
- 19th March 2010
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
- 5th March 2010
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
- 19th February 2010
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
- 22nd January 2010
Despite President Kagame's rapprochement with both France and Congo-Kinshasa, he faces dissent among some of the former faithful
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22nd January 2010
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. In...
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22nd January 2010
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 Cong...
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22nd January 2010
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 plenty o...
- Vol 50 No 24
- 4th December 2009
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
- 24th July 2009
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 expo...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10th July 2009
The search for justice lumbers on in a costly UN tribunal and national and community courts, but the convictions are relatively few