British Development Minister Clare Short's intercession in Whitehall didn't stop Rwanda and Uganda banging war drums elsewhere. As Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni were signing their London statement, Rwanda's Embassy in Belgium handed its citiz...
The caseload from the 1994 genocide has left 115,000 suspects in gaol, detained but not convicted, in conditions which human rights advocates call inhuman. A few alleged leaders face the International Tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.
There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces', the hardline militias involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs
Fresh peace initiatives for the Democratic Republic of Congo look pointless, as government, rebels and their respective sponsors gear up for more fighting. The last regional summit on Congo, in Maputo, Mozambique, on 16 October, committed all sides to mov...
After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa, Kamel Morjane, told reporters in Geneva recently ...
The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile
The government has won its latest row with the UN over genocide
trials
Vice-President Paul Kagame is said to be seething after
four of Rwanda's best footballers, including team Captain Jean-Paul
Nsengiyunva, absconded while on tour in Germany.
The 2-year alliance between Museveni and Kagame is in trouble over Congo strategy
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