Vol 42 No 19 | BURUNDIRWANDA Negating the negatives 28th September 2001 There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces', the hardline militias involved in...
Vol 42 No 13 | RWANDA Kagame under siege 29th June 2001 The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs President Paul Kagame made his name as a military strategist, the successful head of Uganda's military intelligence until 1990, then leader of the forces that conquered his own...
Vol 41 No 21 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Conditional offers 27th October 2000 Fresh peace initiatives for the Democratic Republic of Congo look pointless, as government, rebels and their respective sponsors gear up for more fighting. The last regional summit on...
Vol 41 No 13 | RWANDAUGANDA After Kisangani 23rd June 2000 After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa,...
Vol 41 No 7 | RWANDA Bizimungu bust-up 31st March 2000 The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile An official of the ruling Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) described the resignation of President Pasteur Bizimungu as 'proof of a healthy democratic environment'. Vice-President and Defence Minister Paul...
Vol 40 No 25 | RWANDA Advantage Kigali 17th December 1999 The government has won its latest row with the UN over genocide trials Tracking down the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide continues to dominate Rwandan politics. At home, an anti-corruption drive is running alongside fresh allegations of complicity in the genocide...
Vol 40 No 25 | RWANDA Off-side 17th December 1999 Vice-President Paul Kagame is said to be seething after four of Rwanda's best footballers, including team Captain Jean-Paul Nsengiyunva, absconded while on tour in Germany.
Vol 40 No 18 | RWANDAUGANDA Friends fall out 10th September 1999 The 2-year alliance between Museveni and Kagame is in trouble over Congo strategy In the late 1970s, the old Front Patriotique Rwandais (then exiled in Uganda and Tanzania) had joined forces with Museveni's National Resistance Movement to help oust two Ugandan...
Vol 40 No 6 | RWANDA The fire this time 19th March 1999 The 1994 genocide blighted Central Africa and its bloody legacy continues to undermine the prospects for justice and regional stability Five years after Rwanda’s holocaust, in which some 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in 100 days, those blood-soaked events reverberate across central Africa and the international...
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...