For others the event affirmed and consolidated President Paul Kagame's rule...
Africa Confidential thronged the red carpet to see a relaxed-looking Paul Kagame smiling Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and fit-looking Denis Sassou-Nguesso arrive from Rwanda Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville respectively...
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The source of President Paul Kagame's apparent animus against South Africa stems from its role in helping consolidate the regime of President Joseph Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa in 2002-03...
His regional colleagues – Ethiopia's Hailemariam Desalegn Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta – smile knowingly but for now accept their elder's dominant role...
Vol 55 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Despite some weak fundamentals such as a modest export base a large current account deficit and fiscal reliance on donor flows the country benefits says Samir Gadio of Standard Bank from low levels of corruption and efficient economic management under President Paul Kagame's government which could effect a structural transformation in the medium term...
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'On 11 January President Paul Kagame addressed a national prayer breakfast in Kigali just two days after some bizarre internet reports emanating from Congo-Kinshasa claimed that he himself had been killed by his own bodyguard...
Vol 54 No 22 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Major diplomatic pressure was applied to Rwandan President Paul Kagame through the donor aid suspensions and visits to Kigali by special envoys to the Great Lakes Region...
President Paul Kagame's government stood by while the M23 retreated but the hawks in Kigali may not allow the rebellion to be annihilated...
The Rwandan government of President Paul Kagame found its United States ally accusing it of supporting the rebels while the uncharacteristically effective attacks on M23 positions by the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) have been reined in by pressure from the United Nations Kinshasa sources say...
Its President Paul Kagame is an avowed opponent of the ICC which he calls the ‘African Criminal Court’...