Vol 43 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Proxy wars and slaughter 25th October 2002 The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed Rwanda and Uganda have pulled out their troops (AC Vol 43 No 19) but the proxy war continues in eastern Congo. On 15 August in Luanda, Uganda agreed...
Vol 43 No 19 | RWANDA Leaving the quagmire 27th September 2002 Kigali's withdrawal of troops from Congo creates problems for everyone According to a sympathetic diplomat, the Kigali government has 'achieved in eight years what has taken 50 in Israel the loss of the moral high ground after...
Vol 43 No 8 | RWANDA Anti-Kagame alliance 19th April 2002 President Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais faces its first broad opposition since seizing power in July 1994 (AC Vol 42 No 25). Launched in Brussels on 5 April,...
Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Everything is risky 21st December 2001 President Kagame prepares for national elections while his exiled military opponents regroup in Congo-Kinshasa In our situation everything we do is risky...' General Paul Kagame told Africa Confidential on 9 December in Kigali as he explained plans to open up the country's...
Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Donor diplomacy 21st December 2001 Donors heaped praise on Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper launched in Kigali late last month. The PRSP has to be designed and implemented before Rwanda...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Brothers at war 23rd November 2001 Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala Rwanda and Uganda risk repeating the disaster which overtook the equally revolutionary governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose war in 1998-2000 cost over 100,000 lives and wrecked both...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Picking a fight 23rd November 2001 British Development Minister Clare Short's intercession in Whitehall didn't stop Rwanda and Uganda banging war drums elsewhere. As Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni were signing their London...
Vol 42 No 20 | RWANDA People's courts 12th October 2001 The caseload from the 1994 genocide has left 115,000 suspects in gaol, detained but not convicted, in conditions which human rights advocates call inhuman. A few alleged leaders...
Vol 42 No 19 | BURUNDIRWANDA Negating the negatives 28th September 2001 There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces', the hardline militias involved in...
Vol 42 No 13 | RWANDA Kagame under siege 29th June 2001 The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs President Paul Kagame made his name as a military strategist, the successful head of Uganda's military intelligence until 1990, then leader of the forces that conquered his own...