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- Vol 48 No 24
- 30/11/2007
On the edges of the club
Rwanda became a virtual member of the Commonwealth at its 23-25 November summit in Kampala, partly due to President Yoweri Museveni's energetic support for visiting President Paul Kagame and the pair's determination to show their bilateral problems ha...
- Vol 48 No 20
- 05/10/2007
Healing the rift
Diplomatic relations between France and Rwanda may be on the mend. Rwanda broke them off in November 2006, after a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, issued arrest warrants against nine of President Paul Kagame's senior officials, alleging the...
- Vol 48 No 15
- 20/07/2007
Tower of power
The Kigali government's plan to provide air traffic control systems across the whole of central Africa, where airspace is mostly unmonitored, could earn Rwanda as much as US$156 million a year, outstripping current earnings from tea and coffee exports.
- Vol 48 No 9
- 27/04/2007
The past awakes
On 19 April, the trial opened of the man accused of causing the death of ten United Nations' peacekeepers on 7 April 1994. The indictment says Major Bernard Ntuyahaga ordered the Belgian 'blue helmets' who were escorting Premier Agathe Uwilingiyimana ...
- Vol 47 No 24
- 01/12/2006
La grande rupture
A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm
- Vol 47 No 24
- 01/12/2006
Retaliatory justice
If Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière obtains the international warrants issued in France, nine people will be targets for arrest if they enter the European Union and other countries . . .
- Vol 47 No 2
- 20/01/2006
Death in the canal
On 17 December, a naked and mutilated corpse turned up in a Brussels canal. Five days later, after DNA tests, it was identified as that of Juvénal Uwingiliyimana, 54, a Rwandan refugee in Belgium since 1998, who had disappeared from his Brussels...
- Vol 46 No 20
- 07/10/2005
Out and about
The former Director of Rwanda 's External Security Organisation, Colonel Patrick Karegeya, has been released after being held for five months without trial at Mulindi military prison (AC Vol 46 No 16). Karegeya, who had been demoted to army spokesman ...
- Vol 46 No 19
- 23/09/2005
Cross to bear
The arrest of a Belgian Roman Catholic priest has revived controversy over Rwanda's gacaca tribunals. With unprecedented speed, on 11 September the gacaca sent Guy Theunis, of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) to the assizes, for '...
- Vol 46 No 17
- 26/08/2005
Size doesn't matter
Ex-Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka's victory in the 21 July African Development Bank presidential election (AC Vol 46 No 11) is the latest success for Kigali's increasingly effective diplomatic service. His chances of beating veteran Nigerian banker ...
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