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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 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 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
  •  31st March 2000

Bizimungu bust-up

The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile

  • Vol 40 No 25
  •  17th December 1999

Advantage Kigali

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

  • Vol 40 No 25
  •  17th December 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
  •  10th September 1999

Friends fall out

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

  • Vol 40 No 6
  •  19th March 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

  • Vol 39 No 21
  •  23rd October 1998

Cousins call

Just as the Congo rebels’ main backers had at last admitted their involvement in the civil war, a nasty row broke out between their military men. It began on 6 October, with a long piece in the Ugandan daily The Monitor about life behind rebel lines in Ki...

  • Vol 39 No 18
  •  11th September 1998

Arusha verdicts

After four years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has reached its first two verdicts. On 2 September in Arusha it found Jean-Paul Akayezu, a former Mayor of Tabi, guilty of inciting the massacre of 2,000 Tutsi. Two days later i...

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