Vol 60 No 5 | RWANDAUGANDA Border tension grows 8th March 2019 Relations between Rwanda and Uganda have been steadily declining and reached a new low after Kigali briefly closed the busiest border crossing at Gatuna and reportedly deployed defensively...
Vol 58 No 25 | RWANDAUGANDA Pepper spray 15th December 2017 Three editors from the Ugandan satirical tabloid Red Pepper have been charged with libel and 'offensive communication' over a story alleging that Uganda's security services were plotting to...
Vol 58 No 20 | RWANDA Justice and jurisdictions 6th October 2017 Rwanda has been piling the pressure on Western countries hosting people suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide to extradite them for trial at home. There are 815...
Vol 58 No 19 | RWANDA Picked up or not picking up? 22nd September 2017 The whereabouts and status of Diane Rwigara, the would-be presidential challenger to President Paul Kagame, have been uncertain for about ten days. She was detained in the aftermath...
Vol 58 No 16 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA Seek asylum elsewhere 4th August 2017 A Rwandan former general exiled in South Africa, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has lost his official status as a refugee. Pretoria is using a May court ruling to improve...
Vol 58 No 15 | RWANDA A landslide foretold 21st July 2017 President Kagame’s victory next month is assured. Of greater interest is how he will achieve it and his policies towards the regional flashpoints Lest there was any doubt about the outcome of the 4 August presidential election, President Paul Kagame dispelled it himself at a mass rally on 14 July, when... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 1 | RWANDA Strong man, strong growth 8th January 2016 Kagame is set to ignore all his critics, the US included, and persist with his authoritarian political and economic course The United States declared itself 'deeply disappointed' at President Paul Kagame's January decision to stand for a third term in office, but he rapidly dismissed all concerns in...
Vol 56 No 19 | RWANDA No go for Greens 24th September 2015 Rwanda's Supreme Court was due to begin hearings on 23 September on whether the constitution could be changed to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third...
Vol 56 No 13 | RWANDABRITAIN An accidental arrest 25th June 2015 Britain's arrest of Rwandan spy chief General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake on charges of crimes against humanity was either an unavoidable European treaty obligation, a massive bureaucratic foul-up or...
Vol 56 No 6 | RWANDA No room at the top 20th March 2015 The ruling party is priming the public for a change in the law to allow President Paul Kagame a third term The campaign is now in full swing to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term. Pro-government media are running opinion pieces... READ FOR FREE