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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 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Moving on

Wooing the Commonwealth is only one of Rwanda’s approaches to its region and the wider world

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 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 have b...

  • Vol 48 No 20
  •  5th October 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 their c...

  • Vol 48 No 15
  •  20th July 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
  •  27th April 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 to ...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

La grande rupture

A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm

  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 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
  •  20th January 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 ho...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  •  7th October 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 at t...

  • Vol 46 No 19
  •  23rd September 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 'inci...

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