Vol 39 No 21 | RWANDA Cousins call 23rd October 1998 Just as the Congo rebels’ main backers had at last admitted their involvement in the civil war, a nasty row broke out between their military men. It began...
Vol 39 No 18 | RWANDA Arusha verdicts 11th September 1998 After four years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has reached its first two verdicts. On 2 September in Arusha it found Jean-Paul Akayezu, a former...
Vol 39 No 15 | RWANDA North-west nightmare 24th July 1998 Human rights come a bleak second as the army takes on the rebels United Nations' human rights staff are packing their bags following the government's categorical refusal to allow rights monitoring as part of the UN brief. Talks with a top-level...
Vol 39 No 11 | RWANDA Murder again 29th May 1998 Seth Sendashonga was shot dead on 16 May while leaving a United Nations building in Nairobi. His family says the Kigali government organised his killing. Kenyan police, however,...
Vol 38 No 19 | RWANDA Legacy of war 26th September 1997 Kigali's intervention in Zaïre helped to oust Mobutu but produced no victories at home The transformation of old Zaïre in to the new Democratic Republic of Congo has also transformed the politics of the region around Lake Kivu. Yet insecurity remains endemic...
Vol 38 No 15 | RWANDA Genocide denial 18th July 1997 Africa Direct, a London-based organisation campaigning against the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (AC Vol 38 No 12), is holding a conference entitled 'Rwanda: the great...
Vol 38 No 7 | RWANDA The Zaïre effect 28th March 1997 The war in Zaïre has brought more violence to Rwanda: some 600,000 Hutu fled home, among them many Interahamwé and former Rwandan troops. The killing goes on: people...
Vol 37 No 14 | RWANDA The king speaks out 5th July 1996 Paul Kagamé has to watch the monarchists – now they are turning against him Support for the government is shrinking as regional instability grows. After a wave of Hutu defections in the past year, there are signs of growing Tutsi disaffection. Tutsi...
Vol 37 No 6 | RWANDA Lessons not learned 15th March 1996 A new report explaining why aid agencies fail in emergencies may still not help Burundi Reluctance to act on clear warning signs of a catastrophe in Rwanda and a lack of political will by United Nations members are to blame for international donors'...
Vol 35 No 17 | RWANDA Battling for reconciliation 26th August 1994 The new Front Patriotique Rwandais government is in danger of squandering the goodwill it had won after its military defeat of those forces, such as the Interahamwé...