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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 45 No 4
  •  20th February 2004

Deadly anniversary

The regime prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the genocide

  • Vol 45 No 4
  •  20th February 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
  •  21st November 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
  •  10th October 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
  •  29th August 2003

A victory foretold

Kagame defeats ethnic arithmetic in the first presidential poll since the genocide of 1994

  • Vol 44 No 17
  •  29th August 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
  •  13th June 2003

Finally, an election

General Kagame is set to win easily against a divided opposition in this year's election

  • Vol 44 No 10
  •  16th May 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
  •  4th April 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
  •  25th October 2002

Proxy wars and slaughter

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

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