Vol 53 No 13 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kigali’s hand in the Kivus 22nd June 2012 A UN report on Rwandan backing for mutineers sparks a diplomatic row in New York as the rebels gain ground As fighting escalates in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, pressure is mounting for the publication in full of a United Nations’ investigation into the links between Rwanda and a new militia...
Vol 53 No 13 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASAUNITED STATES US 'protecting' Rwanda 22nd June 2012 While Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tungamulongo, demanded that Rwanda immediately withdraw its support for militia in eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a press conference on...
Vol 53 No 12 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Who fights for whom 8th June 2012 Mutinous factions along the border are exploited by both governments, and Hutu-Tutsi quarrels live on No one watching the fighting in eastern Congo-Kinshasa was surprised when the United Nations reported in May that Rwanda was directly involved.
Vol 53 No 2 | RWANDAFRANCE Crash goes the conspiracy 20th January 2012 Relations between Rwanda and France have received another boost. On 11 January, French judges Nathalie Poux and Marc Trévidic cleared the ruling Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) of shooting...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 3 | RWANDAEAST AFRICA Richard Sezibera 18th January 2012 Secretary General, EAC In December, East African Community Secretary General Richard Sezibera rejected Sudan’s bid to join the regional bloc. The application failed on geographic grounds – on South Sudan’s secession...
Vol 52 No 11 | RWANDA Prosperity and paranoia 27th May 2011 Sinister rumours and grenade attacks coexist with the government’s proud economic record Weapons at the ready, soldiers and police line the main roads out of Kigali in the afternoons. Few of President Paul Kagame’s critics speak out within Rwanda (AC...
Vol 52 No 3 | RWANDA The political fallout 4th February 2011 Opposition forces, some armed and some civilian, intensify their campaigns against the regime in Kigali Yet another former government figure has set up a political movement in opposition to Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Faustin Twagiramungu, who was Prime Minister in the first post-genocide government in 1994,...
Vol 51 No 22 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kagame’s troops return to Congo 5th November 2010 Chaos in the Kivus has given Kigali a pretext to send its soldiers back across the border in pursuit of political and economic objectives The Rwandan Defence Force is back in Congo-Kinshasa but trying to keep a low profile. Presidents Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame agreed on the move at a 6...
Vol 51 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kigali wins another round of the blame game 10th September 2010 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held an emergency meeting with President Paul Kagame in Kigali on 8 September after the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping missions. Kigali’s logic was unassailable. A draft UN report had suggested that Rwandan troops might have committed ‘crimes of genocide’ in eastern Congo-Kinshasa in 1997; if the UN endorsed those claims, Kigali said it would have no choice but to withdraw its 3,500 troops from the UN force in Darfur, Sudan. The credibility of the United Nations is on trial again after the leaking of its draft 545-page report mapping human rights violations in Congo-Kinshasa in 1993-2003. It seems...
Vol 51 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA The UN’s credibility on the line 10th September 2010 Relations with the United Nations in general have taken a heavy hit. Kigali accuses the UN of leaking the report to distract attention from the inadequacies of its...