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- 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 ...
- Vol 46 No 16
- 05/08/2005
Inside track
Concern is mounting about the fate of army Spokesman and former Director of External Intelligence Colonel Patrick Karegeya, embroiled in a power struggle within the ruling Front Patriotique Rwandais (AC Vol 46 No 10). Human rights groups have been tol...
- Vol 46 No 10
- 13/05/2005
Colonel inside
The arrest of the army spokesman and former Director of External Intelligence, Colonel Patrick Karegeya, on 30 April points to new tensions in President Paul Rugambwa Kagame's government. Some are internal rivalries, some linked to pressure on Kigali's...
- Vol 45 No 25
- 17/12/2004
On edge
The fighting in North Kivu threatens both next year's promised elections and Congo's fragile peace. President Joseph Kabila's cheerleaders in Kinshasa blame Rwandan aggression for the latest clashes, and claim to have captured Rwandan soldiers. Kigali ...
- Vol 45 No 24
- 03/12/2004
Coming to blows
Somebody fired katyusha rockets into Rwerere village in Rwanda's northern Gisenyi province, on 15 November. Three people were hurt. A similar attack followed in Ruhengeri province. President Paul Kagame threatened to send his forces across the Congo bo...
- Vol 45 No 22
- 05/11/2004
Militant diplomacy
Kigali's muscular foreign policy has won a grudging respect


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