Vol 45 No 14 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASAAFRICA Military might 9th July 2004 This week's military agreement between Rwanda and South Africa may be touted as African Union cooperation and regional peace-building. But some in Pretoria fear that if Kigali continues...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA Starting again 2nd April 2004 Military might and economic rigour have sustained Kigali's recovery Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, its economic growth is fast but much faster for some sectors and for some people than for others. The government depends heavily on...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA On trial for genocide 2nd April 2004 The outpouring of grief and horrific memories ten years after Rwanda's genocide has been accompanied by a less dignified round of finger-pointing among governments, diplomats and journalists. It...
Vol 45 No 6 | RWANDA Who fired the missiles? 19th March 2004 Kigali rejects French claims that its fighters shot down President Habyarimana's plane Diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali have sunk to their lowest level for a decade in a new row over Rwanda's genocide. On 16 March, President Paul Kagame...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Deadly anniversary 20th February 2004 The regime prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the genocide Six months after his Front Patriotique Rwandais swept the board at last year's presidential and parliamentary elections, President Paul Kagame is still putting his regime in order (AC...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Friends wanted 20th February 2004 The military threat from abroad is at last diminishing. Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President...
Vol 44 No 23 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Surrender! 21st November 2003 Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's...
Vol 44 No 20 | RWANDA Bedding down 10th October 2003 President Paul Kagame claimed more than 95 per cent of the presidential poll in July, so it was hardly surprising that the coalition led by his Front Patriotique...
Vol 44 No 17 | RWANDA A victory foretold 29th August 2003 Kagame defeats ethnic arithmetic in the first presidential poll since the genocide of 1994 General Paul Kagame was right when, a few days before the presidential election on 25 August, he told Africa Confidential: 'Most likely I am going to win. ...
Vol 44 No 17 | RWANDA Winning hearts and budgets 29th August 2003 Doubts about President Paul Kagame's landslide election victory are unlikely to bring a fall in Western aid to Kigali but funding will come under heavier scrutiny as concern...