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 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

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Picking a fight

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...

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