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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 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

  • Vol 44 No 10
  • 16/05/2003

High dudgeon summit

None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were agreed to verify claims that each neighbour is training rebel militias to fig...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

Soccer war, Congo war

So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between Kampala and Kigali in Africa's Cup of Nations soccer tournament on 29 Marc...

  • Vol 43 No 21
  • 25/10/2002

Proxy wars and slaughter

The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed

  • Vol 43 No 19
  • 27/09/2002

Leaving the quagmire

Kigali's withdrawal of troops from Congo creates problems for everyone

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Anti-Kagame alliance

President Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais faces its first broad opposition since seizing power in July 1994 (AC Vol 42 No 25). Launched in Brussels on 5 April, the Alliance pour la Démocratie et la Réconciliation Nationale is coordi...

  • Vol 42 No 25
  • 21/12/2001

Everything is risky

President Kagame prepares for national elections while his exiled military opponents regroup in Congo-Kinshasa

  • Vol 42 No 25
  • 21/12/2001

Donor diplomacy

Donors heaped praise on Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper launched in Kigali late last month. The PRSP has to be designed and implemented before Rwanda qualifies for relief in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) sc...

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Brothers at war

Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala

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