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Rwanda

Population: 9.2 million
GNI: $2300 million
Debt: $1400 million
Overview: Higher growth and rising school enrolment boost President Paul Kagame's authoritarian Front Patriotique Rwandais while relations with France will gradually improve. Eastern Congo's persisting crisis will reverberate in Kigali.

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  • Vol 45 No 7
  • 02/04/2004

Starting again

Military might and economic rigour have sustained Kigali's recovery

  • Vol 45 No 7
  • 02/04/2004

On trial for genocide

The outpouring of grief and horrific memories ten years after Rwanda's genocide has been accompanied by a less dignified round of finger-pointing among governments, diplomats and journalists. It started last month with Stephen Smith's article in the Paris...

  • Vol 45 No 6
  • 19/03/2004

Who fired the missiles?

Kigali rejects French claims that its fighters shot down President Habyarimana's plane

  • Vol 45 No 4
  • 20/02/2004

Deadly anniversary

The regime prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the genocide

  • Vol 45 No 4
  • 20/02/2004

Friends wanted

The military threat from abroad is at last diminishing. Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in London on 29 January (although the prospect of a third te...

  • Vol 44 No 23
  • 21/11/2003

Surrender!

Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa. Based in Congo-Kinshas...

  • Vol 44 No 20
  • 10/10/2003

Bedding down

President Paul Kagame claimed more than 95 per cent of the presidential poll in July, so it was hardly surprising that the coalition led by his Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) swept the board at the parliamentary election on 30 September. The FPR and its...

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

A victory foretold

Kagame defeats ethnic arithmetic in the first presidential poll since the genocide of 1994

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

Winning hearts and budgets

Doubts about President Paul Kagame's landslide election victory are unlikely to bring a fall in Western aid to Kigali but funding will come under heavier scrutiny as concern grows about authoritarianism and human rights abuses. The biggest concern remai...

  • Vol 44 No 12
  • 13/06/2003

Finally, an election

General Kagame is set to win easily against a divided opposition in this year's election

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