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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 43 No 19
  •  27th September 2002

Leaving the quagmire

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

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 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
  •  21st December 2001

Everything is risky

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

  • Vol 42 No 25
  •  21st December 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
  •  23rd November 2001

Brothers at war

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

  • Vol 42 No 23
  •  23rd November 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...

  • Vol 42 No 20
  •  12th October 2001

People's courts

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.

  • Vol 42 No 19
  •  28th September 2001

Negating the negatives

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.

  • Vol 42 No 13
  •  29th June 2001

Kagame under siege

The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs

  • Vol 41 No 21
  •  27th October 2000

Conditional offers

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...

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