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	Rwanda
Population:	13.86m
GDP:	$13.7bn
Debt:	69.9% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 65 No 12 |

RWANDA
BRITAIN

Whitehall's migrant deal with Kigali set to collapse

29th May 2024

The Labour Party, currently 12 points ahead in opinion polls, has promised to scrap the Rwanda asylum plan if it wins the general election

The British government's migration deal with Rwanda is now highly likely to collapse without a single asylum-seeker being deported, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that no flights...

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Vol 65 No 10 |

RWANDA
ENERGY

How authoritarianism and sycophancy damage the energy industry

26th April 2024

The President's obsession with boosting electricity generation created massive debt and over-capacity

Unthinking obedience to directives from President Paul Kagame to meet unnecessarily high targets for greater generating capacity have damaged Rwanda's electricity industry and restricted public access to power,...

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Vol 65 No 10 |

RWANDA
UNITED STATES

New diplomatic chill between US and Kigali over M23

8th May 2024

Washington blames the Rwandan army and the rebel militia group for the bombing of a displacement camp in Goma

The diplomatic chill between Rwanda and the United States has got colder after Washington implicated the Rwandan army in mortar attacks that killed at least 16 people in...

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Vol 65 No 10 |

Gaborone turns down London after Rwanda law comes into force

30th April 2024

Botswana has rejected another 'cash-for-asylum-seekers' deal saying it cannot commit to hosting people not knowing what the end game will be

Days after the UK Parliament finally passed a law that will allow asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda where their claims will be considered, Prime Minister Rishi...

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Vol 65 No 8 |

RWANDA

Thirty years on, genocide haunts the region

11th April 2024

Among the most effective in Africa, Rwanda's army has exported the conflict to eastern Congo-Kinshasa, reshaping national politics en route

The genocide of Tutsi and massacre of Hutu 'moderates' launched on 7 April 1994 and perpetrated by the Forces Armées Rwandaises (FAR), and the Interahamwe Hutu militia it...

Vol 65 No 6 |

How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war

5th March 2024

The proxy war between Kinshasa and Kigali is derailing the European Union's plan to secure critical minerals

Three days after an angry meeting between Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on 16 February in Addis Ababa over the escalating regional conflict,...

Vol 65 No 6 |

Kigali pushes back against the African Union

5th March 2024

President Kagame's strategic position is facing growing regional pressure

Rwanda has warned the Africa Union that it would see any support for the South African-led regional intervention force against the M-23 militia in eastern Congo-Kinshasa as a...

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Vol 65 No 5 |

RWANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Fighting escalates in the Kivus and western officials censure Kagame

21st February 2024

Despite growing alarms about regional conflict, EU officials announce MOU on minerals with Kigali

Deepening hostilities between Kigali and Kinshasa were the subject of several closed-door meetings at African Union summit on 17-18 February in Addis Ababa. Yet on 19 February, the...

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Vol 65 No 2 |

RWANDA
UNITED STATES

Kigali taps US hacker for new fight with Rusesabagina

5th January 2024

Security services in Rwanda are working with a self-described 'white-hat hacker' to take down their foes

Hostilities are reopening between the security services in Kigali and 'Hotel Rwanda' activist Paul Rusesabagina after their agreement in March 2023. Under the deal Rusesabagina's 25-year sentence was...

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Vol 64 No 25 |

RWANDA
BRITAIN

London moves to salvage 'cash for asylum seekers' deal

6th December 2023

British ministers divided over whether new treaty with Kigali will clash with international obligations

Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly signed a revised treaty with Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta on 5 December in a bid to rescue the cash-for-asylum-seekers agreement between London...

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