Vol 55 No 17 | RWANDA Kagame's purge 29th August 2014 The arrest of senior government and army members considered pillars of the regime has caused surprise The former head of the Republican Guard, Colonel Tom Byabagamba, was arrested on suspicion of 'crimes against state security' on 23 August on his return from the United...
Vol 55 No 14 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Puzzle of FDLR intentions 11th July 2014 The notorious militia is disarming but some say that’s a blind. A complex mix of motives, alliances and regional interests is at work Central and Southern African leaders have demanded the disarmament of the Rwandan Hutu militia, the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda. At a summit in Luanda on 2...
Vol 55 No 13 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Fighting flares in the Kivus 20th June 2014 Both Kinshasa and Kigali have their own domestic or geopolitical reasons to keep the pot boiling over their common border Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda traded heavy arms fire in the second week of June in a reminder, after months of calm, of the countries' mutual suspicion and the volatility...
Vol 55 No 8 | RWANDA Kagame mourns – and warns 18th April 2014 The 20th commemoration of the genocide of 1994 found the President uncompromising towards France and others he sees as enemies President Paul Kagame's keynote speech at the Amahoro Stadium on 7 April urged everyone to face up to their responsibilities, since 'the people who planned and carried out...
Vol 55 No 8 | RWANDA Militant remembrance 18th April 2014 Formally entitled 'Kwibuka 20' (we remember), with the motto 'Remember, Unite, Renew', the concerns of the present were never far away from the commemoration of the past. That...
Vol 55 No 6 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA The last straw 21st March 2014 Any escalation of the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after the 4 March attack on the Pretoria home of the exiled Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa now looks improbable....
Vol 55 No 2 | RWANDA Murder in the Michelangelo 16th January 2014 The killing of a political opponent to President Kagame in a Sandton hotel has riled Pretoria and could have wider consequences The arrest in Mozambique of three Rwandans this week in connection with the murder in South Africa of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's opposition leader and former spy chief,...
Vol 54 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kivu on the brink 6th September 2013 The M23 rebels have suffered heavy losses, so Kigali may have to choose between abandoning them or risking deeper involvement Tension between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa has escalated almost to open war after two weeks of renewed fighting in eastern Congo. The national army, the Forces armées de la...
Vol 54 No 16 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23 takes a hit 1st August 2013 The army turns the tables on the rebels and Rwanda may find it problematic to continue its support for M23 Two weeks of sometimes brutal fighting between the Mouvement du 23 mars and the national army have ramped up the pressure on Kinshasa and Kigali to negotiate a...
Vol 54 No 12 | RWANDATANZANIA Kagame flames Kikwete 7th June 2013 May’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa saw Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete ask if the Kigali-supported Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebels should negotiate with Kinshasa, why shouldn’t...