Ever since the rendition trial and conviction of Paul Rusesabagina hero of the Hollywood film 'Hotel Rwanda' there has been diplomatic speculation that President Paul Kagame might use the status of the one-time hotel manager as a bargaining chip...
International criticism is mounting against President Paul Kagame's government after 90 mainly Africa-based rights and media groups called for an independent and impartial probe into the 'suspicious' death of prominent journalist John Williams Ntwali...
There are no real incentives for either Nyusi or President Paul Kagame to reduce the RDF presence in Mozambique...
While Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has now publicly urged the M23 to pull back the armed group still holds swathes of territory it captured since it began its latest rebellion at the end of 2021...
Regional diplomats believe Kainerugaba's move to pour cold water on the operation which irked not only Elwelu but his direct boss Gen Wilson Abadi was piloted by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...
THE TALON-KAGAME AXIS GOES MILITARY With his centralised Chief Executive Officer top-down rule and crackdown on dissidents President Patrice Talon has modelled some economic and political policies on those pursued by his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame...
A truce signed in Luanda with only the tacit participation of the principal antagonist guaranteed by a phone call between Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's Paul Kagame and enforced by the threat of joint-force military intervention from a contingent yet to take up its fighting positions appears to have suspended at least temporarily the M23's plans to capture Goma...
On 28 October Rwandan President Paul Kagame flew to Maputo for a 'working visit' to discuss with President Filipe Nyusi how to improve conditions for the resumption of the LNG project among other matters...
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Vol 63 No 22 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Mitchell who since March 2020 has been advising Southbridge a pan-African Investment and Advisory company with offices in Abidjan Kigali and Paris for an annual fee of £39 600 (according to his parliamentary filings) is a veteran cheerleader for the Paul Kagame-led Rwandan government which took over after the 1994 genocide This year Britain and Rwanda finalised an agreement worth over £100 million to President Kagame's government to host people whose asylum requests in Britain have been rejected (AC Vol 63 No 9 Refugee deal faces delays as legal and political challenges grow)...
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Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accuses Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame of backing the M23 militia as a means of looting minerals in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 63 No 14 Tshisekedi calls out Kagame on the M23 militia)...