Other Presidents seeking to stay on past their legal limit include Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...
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The campaign is now in full swing to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term...
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Vol 56 No 6 |
- BURUNDI
- RWANDA
The online bulletin Inyereri News a long-time critic of President Paul Kagame noted the corpses' hands were bound in the 'Kandoya' manner a hallmark of RPF executions in the 1990-94 Rwandan civil war...
Vol 55 No 22 |
- BURKINA FASO
Beyond Burkina Faso's borders the drama is being watched intently in countries whose Presidents are planning to extend their rule namely: Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Togo's Faure Gnassingbé Benin's Yayi Boni Djibouti's Omar Guelleh Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza and Rwanda's Paul Kagame...
Vol 55 No 19 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kabila and President Paul Kagame have a fractious relationship and their private interests have sometimes coincided while national interests and armies frequently clash...
The arrests have observers wondering if the idea is to keep President Paul Kagame's inner circle in a state of permanent apprehension whether there have simply been differences of opinion or whether a plot has really been uncovered...
Much was made of the 'new generation' of African leaders such as Ethiopia's late Meles Zenawi Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and even Eritrea's Issayas until relations soured irredeemably...
After the genocide Rwandan President Paul Kagame marched into Congo; later his government sponsored pro-Kigali rebellions in his giant neighbour...
Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide when Hutu militiamen blamed for the murder of 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus fled into the jungles of eastern Congo-K to eventually form the FDLR Rwandan President Paul Kagame has used the militia's presence to justify invasions of his mineral-rich neighbour's territory...
Vol 55 No 10 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Rwandan President Paul Kagame and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit were present for the signing...