Vol 58 No 19 | RWANDA Picked up or not picking up? 22nd September 2017 The whereabouts and status of Diane Rwigara, the would-be presidential challenger to President Paul Kagame, have been uncertain for about ten days. She was detained in the aftermat...
Vol 58 No 16 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA Seek asylum elsewhere 4th August 2017 A Rwandan former general exiled in South Africa, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has lost his official status as a refugee. Pretoria is using a May court ruling to improve its poor relat...
Vol 58 No 15 | RWANDA A landslide foretold 21st July 2017 President Kagame’s victory next month is assured. Of greater interest is how he will achieve it and his policies towards the regional flashpoints Lest there was any doubt about the outcome of the 4 August presidential election, President Paul Kagame dispelled it himself at a mass rally on 14 July, when official campaigning b... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 1 | RWANDA Strong man, strong growth 8th January 2016 Kagame is set to ignore all his critics, the US included, and persist with his authoritarian political and economic course The United States declared itself 'deeply disappointed' at President Paul Kagame's January decision to stand for a third term in office, but he rapidly dismissed all concerns in a ...
Vol 56 No 19 | RWANDA No go for Greens 24th September 2015 Rwanda's Supreme Court was due to begin hearings on 23 September on whether the constitution could be changed to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third seven-year term in...
Vol 56 No 13 | RWANDABRITAIN An accidental arrest 25th June 2015 Britain's arrest of Rwandan spy chief General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake on charges of crimes against humanity was either an unavoidable European treaty obligation, a massive bureaucr...
Vol 56 No 6 | RWANDA No room at the top 20th March 2015 The ruling party is priming the public for a change in the law to allow President Paul Kagame a third term The campaign is now in full swing to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term. Pro-government media are running opinion pieces almost daily p... READ FOR FREE
Vol 56 No 6 | BURUNDIRWANDA Lake murder mystery 20th March 2015 Little progress has been made in the investigation into dozens of bodies found in Lake Rweru Reports in August that dozens of bodies had been found floating in Lake Rweru on the Rwandan-Burundian border made international headlines and drew condemnation from foreign donors...
Vol 55 No 17 | RWANDA Kagame's purge 29th August 2014 The arrest of senior government and army members considered pillars of the regime has caused surprise The former head of the Republican Guard, Colonel Tom Byabagamba, was arrested on suspicion of 'crimes against state security' on 23 August on his return from the United Nations Mis...
Vol 55 No 14 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Puzzle of FDLR intentions 11th July 2014 The notorious militia is disarming but some say that’s a blind. A complex mix of motives, alliances and regional interests is at work Central and Southern African leaders have demanded the disarmament of the Rwandan Hutu militia, the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda. At a summit in Luand...
