Paul Kagame

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame gave an interview to Britain's The Times saying his country would leave la Francophonie and apply to join the Commonwealth - to coincide with Cannes; Rwanda was not invited because diplomatic relations are broken (AC Vol 47 No 24)...

President Paul Kagame accepted some reform suggestions but attacked the composition of the Review team and dismissed criticisms of Rwanda's political process...

French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière has issued an international warrant against nine of Rwanda’s top leaders including President Paul Kagame for their alleged role in the incident which triggered the 1994 genocide the shooting-down of the late President Juvénal Habyarimana...

A further blow to French hegemony has been struck in Côte d’Ivoire where some of President Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters have set up a movement ‘in support of Paul Kagame’s actions’...

It came after France's Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière asked a higher court to issue international arrest warrants against several senior officials in President Paul Kagame's regime...

Paul Kagame as head of state is not subject to a warrant...

Rapprochement between Kinshasa and Kigali As Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government praises the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo the rapprochement between Kinshasa and Kigali is becoming more apparent...

A rough pact has been made between UN diplomats and the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame with Rwanda promising not to destabilise elections (much) in the east while the UN guarantees Rwanda continued influence in the Congolese government after the polls whatever their outcome (AC Vol 47 No 5)...

Rwasa is impressed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame's success in winning international support for his refusal to negotiate with the Congolese-based Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) on the grounds that it is a 'terrorist organisation' (United States-speak) or a 'negative force' (Great Lakes diplomacy-speak)...

That won approving nods from the heads of state in attendance: Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré; Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Rwanda's Paul Kagame; Mozambique's Armando Guebuza; Benin's Yayi Boni...

The first countries assessed were Ghana and Rwanda; President John Agyekum Kufuor presented Ghana's report (AC Vol 46 No 19) but President Paul Kagame stayed away...