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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 50 No 14
  •  10th July 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 grow...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Trouble in Kinshasa

President Joseph Kabila’s worsening rivalry with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, is dividing the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD), to which they both belong. Kamerhe’s latest offence is to have ...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Shotgun wedding

President Kabila's improbable deal with Rwanda could unravel and further weaken his authority in Kinshasa

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Shooting down a president

Fourteen years after the murder of the two Presidents which triggered the genocide, France’s case against the nine accused looks very thin

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Who arms Laurent Nkunda?

Congo-Kinshasa's Local Government Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi was running his own militia in the east a decade ago. Now he says it might be helpful for the Kinshasa government to open talks with General Laurent Nkunda on rounding up and expelling the Forces D...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

A one-sided election

The parliamentary elections were unconvincing but a bit better than the last ones

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

The Kivu impasse

Rwanda cannot escape the troubles across the border in North Kivu

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

The dead bite back

Rwanda accuses France of involvement in the 1994 genocide; France blames Rwanda; expect more accusations soon

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Mission position

Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing friend’ President Paul Kagame on how to streamline government and attract investment. ‘I ...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Indicting Kigali

A Spanish judge has made it unsafe for 40 senior Rwandan officials to travel outside their own country by issuing international arrest warrants against them for crimes including genocide, allegedly committed in the 1990s. Judge Fernando Andreu made his or...

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