Rwanda

Rwanda

Population: 10.0 million
GDP: $5000 million
Debt: $16.7% of GDP
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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 42 No 20
  • 12/10/2001

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
  • 28/09/2001

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
  • 29/06/2001

Kagame under siege

The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

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...

  • Vol 41 No 13
  • 23/06/2000

After Kisangani

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 ...

  • Vol 41 No 7
  • 31/03/2000

Bizimungu bust-up

The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile

  • Vol 40 No 25
  • 17/12/1999

Advantage Kigali

The government has won its latest row with the UN over genocide trials

  • Vol 40 No 25
  • 17/12/1999

Off-side

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.

  • Vol 40 No 18
  • 10/09/1999

Friends fall out

The 2-year alliance between Museveni and Kagame is in trouble over Congo strategy

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

The fire this time

The 1994 genocide blighted Central Africa and its bloody legacy continues to undermine the prospects for justice and regional stability

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