Vol 46 No 10 | RWANDA Colonel inside 13th May 2005 The arrest of the army spokesman and former Director of External Intelligence, Colonel Patrick Karegeya, on 30 April points to new tensions in President Paul Rugambwa Kagame's gove...
Vol 45 No 25 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA On edge 17th December 2004 The fighting in North Kivu threatens both next year's promised elections and Congo's fragile peace. President Joseph Kabila's cheerleaders in Kinshasa blame Rwandan aggression for ...
Vol 45 No 24 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Coming to blows 3rd December 2004 Somebody fired katyusha rockets into Rwerere village in Rwanda's northern Gisenyi province, on 15 November. Three people were hurt. A similar attack followed in Ruhengeri province....
Vol 45 No 22 | RWANDA Militant diplomacy 5th November 2004 Kigali's muscular foreign policy has won a grudging respect A decade after, most of the regime's diplomatic responses are still conditioned by the genocide and the failure of the United Nations and Western states to help stop the mass murde...
Vol 45 No 14 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASAAFRICA Military might 9th July 2004 This week's military agreement between Rwanda and South Africa may be touted as African Union cooperation and regional peace-building. But some in Pretoria fear that if Kigali cont...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA Starting again 2nd April 2004 Military might and economic rigour have sustained Kigali's recovery Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, its economic growth is fast but much faster for some sectors and for some people than for others. The government depends heavily on foreign aid. ...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA On trial for genocide 2nd April 2004 The outpouring of grief and horrific memories ten years after Rwanda's genocide has been accompanied by a less dignified round of finger-pointing among governments, diplomats and j...
Vol 45 No 6 | RWANDA Who fired the missiles? 19th March 2004 Kigali rejects French claims that its fighters shot down President Habyarimana's plane Diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali have sunk to their lowest level for a decade in a new row over Rwanda's genocide. On 16 March, President Paul Kagame accused France of...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Deadly anniversary 20th February 2004 The regime prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the genocide 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 ...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Friends wanted 20th February 2004 The military threat from abroad is at last diminishing. Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri K...