President Paul Kagame and the Chief of Staff of the army the Forces de Défense Rwandaises (FDR) James Kabarebe recently told the EU's Special Representative Aldo Ajello that they were no longer very worried about Congo...
It started last month with Stephen Smith's article in the Paris daily Le Monde commenting on a report by France's anti-terrorist police claiming that soldiers from the Front Patriotique Rwandais under General Paul Kagame's command shot down the jet carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 (AC Vol 45 No 6)...
On 16 March President Paul Kagame accused France of direct involvement in the mass slaughter by providing training and weapons to the killers...
Six months after his Front Patriotique Rwandais swept the board at last year's presidential and parliamentary elections President Paul Kagame is still putting his regime in order (AC Vol 44 No 20)...
Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in London on 29 January (although the prospect of a third term for Museveni is not welcome in Kigali)...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
In North Kivu Governor Eugène Serufuli is establishing a power-base with his own militia independent of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (RCD-Goma) to which he nominally belongs (it is led from Kinshasa by Azarias Ruberwa) and perhaps even independent of General Paul Kagame's government in Rwanda...
Vol 44 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Last week President Kabila and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame met again in South Africa after growing claims about their ambivalence towards Congo's fragile peace...
President Paul Kagame claimed more than 95 per cent of the presidential poll in July so it was hardly surprising that the coalition led by his Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) swept the board at the parliamentary election on 30 September...
General Paul Kagame was right when a few days before the presidential election on 25 August he told Africa Confidential: 'Most likely I am going to win...
Doubts about President Paul Kagame's landslide election victory are unlikely to bring a fall in Western aid to Kigali but funding will come under heavier scrutiny as concern grows about authoritarianism and human rights abuses...