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- Vol 45 No 4
- 20/02/2004
Friends wanted
The military threat from abroad is at last diminishing. Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in London on 29 January (although the prospect of a third te...
- Vol 44 No 23
- 21/11/2003
Surrender!
Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa. Based in Congo-Kinshas...
- Vol 44 No 20
- 10/10/2003
Bedding down
President Paul Kagame claimed more than 95 per cent of the presidential poll in July, so it was hardly surprising that the coalition led by his Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) swept the board at the parliamentary election on 30 September. The FPR and its...
- Vol 44 No 17
- 29/08/2003
A victory foretold
Kagame defeats ethnic arithmetic in the first presidential poll since the genocide of 1994
- 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
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