Paul Kagame

For years he has denounced Kabila's reliance on ethnic Kinyarwanda-speaking officers in the national army and his close relationship with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...

He is known however to be a fan of efficient business as a model for government efficiency and is reputed to be a keen admirer of Rwandan President Paul Kagame's governing style...

He has described Rwanda's Paul Kagame as an example to emulate and sidled up to Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan which landed a Turkish company the right to manage the Port autonome de Conakry amid much controversy (AC Vol 59 No 20 Turks in troubled waters)...

Much will depend on the ability of EAC Chairman Rwanda's President Paul Kagame's ability to moderate multiple regional rivalries in several of which his own country plays a critical role...

Ten days after Rwanda closed its main border post with Uganda on 28 February forcing trucks and buses from Uganda into days-long delays at the customs post of the quieter Mirama Hills crossing and while their intelligence services' propaganda machinery waged war on social media Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni addressed themselves to the crisis...

Kigali meanwhile has been briefing diplomats extensively on the January arrest by the FARDC of La Forge Fils Bayeze the spokesman of the North Kivu-based mainly Hutu militia Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) after he returned to Congo-K from Kampala where he had met Ugandan minister Philemon Mateke and representatives of the Rwandan National Congress of General Kayumba Nyamwasa the arch-enemy of President Paul Kagame currently in exile in South Africa (AC Vol 58 No 16 Seek asylum elsewhere)...

The intelligence and military arms of the two countries are in a fully fledged covert cold war linked to Uganda's 'neutral' position on Rwandan dissidents who were once high-ranking officials in Kigali but broke ranks with President Paul Kagame...

Diplomats from the region told Africa Confidential that the vanguard of the recent intake to the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo were ex-M23 fighters handed to FARDC by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...

The anti-Paul Kagame Rwandan rebels of Kayumba Nyamwasa the Rwandan former general who was subject of several assassination attempts while in exile in South Africa are allied with Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis against Burundian rebels allied with Mai-Mai (AC Vol 59 No 16 Backers and attackers)...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame who has chaired the AU this year sought to beef up its secretariat and make the organisation self-financing via a 0...