Vol 49 No 21 | RWANDA The Kivu impasse 17th October 2008 Rwanda cannot escape the troubles across the border in North Kivu The rebel Congolese Tutsi General, Laurent Nkunda, has called for an uprising against the Kinshasa government. The 3,000-6,000 men of his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple...
Vol 49 No 18 | RWANDAFRANCE The dead bite back 5th September 2008 Rwanda accuses France of involvement in the 1994 genocide; France blames Rwanda; expect more accusations soon France had hoped to repair the breach but Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected the olive branch. On 5 August, his government published the report of an ‘independent’ commission,...
Vol 49 No 5 | RWANDABRITAIN Mission position 29th February 2008 Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing...
Vol 49 No 4 | RWANDASPAIN Indicting Kigali 15th February 2008 A Spanish judge has made it unsafe for 40 senior Rwandan officials to travel outside their own country by issuing international arrest warrants against them for crimes including...
Vol 48 No 24 | RWANDA Moving on 30th November 2007 Wooing the Commonwealth is only one of Rwanda’s approaches to its region and the wider world After its terrible years of turmoil, Rwanda was reasserting its place in the world well before last week's Commonwealth summit considered its possible membership. In June, it...
Vol 48 No 24 | RWANDACOMMONWEALTH On the edges of the club 30th November 2007 Rwanda became a virtual member of the Commonwealth at its 23-25 November summit in Kampala, partly due to President Yoweri Museveni's energetic support for visiting President Paul Kagame...
Vol 48 No 20 | RWANDAFRANCE Healing the rift 5th October 2007 Diplomatic relations between France and Rwanda may be on the mend. Rwanda broke them off in November 2006, after a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, issued arrest warrants against...
Vol 48 No 15 | RWANDA Tower of power 20th July 2007 The Kigali government's plan to provide air traffic control systems across the whole of central Africa, where airspace is mostly unmonitored, could earn Rwanda as much as US$156...
Vol 48 No 9 | RWANDABELGIUM The past awakes 27th April 2007 On 19 April, the trial opened of the man accused of causing the death of ten United Nations' peacekeepers on 7 April 1994. The indictment says Major...
Vol 47 No 24 | RWANDAFRANCE La grande rupture 1st December 2006 A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm The break in diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali will not heal quickly. It came after France's Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière asked a higher court to issue international arrest...