Rwanda

Rwanda

Population: 10.0 million
GDP: $5000 million
Debt: $16.7% of GDP
Overview:

President Paul Kagame will certainly win the presidential elections in August and opposition candidates will face major strictures even if his tenuous deal with Kinshasa starts to unravel with fresh violence in Eastern Congo.

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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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