Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Everything is risky 21st December 2001 President Kagame prepares for national elections while his exiled military opponents regroup in Congo-Kinshasa In our situation everything we do is risky...' General Paul Kagame told Africa Confidential on 9 December in Kigali as he explained plans to open up the country's politics ahead of...
Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Donor diplomacy 21st December 2001 Donors heaped praise on Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper launched in Kigali late last month. The PRSP has to be designed and implemented before R...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Brothers at war 23rd November 2001 Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala Rwanda and Uganda risk repeating the disaster which overtook the equally revolutionary governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose war in 1998-2000 cost over 100,000 lives and wreck...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Picking a fight 23rd November 2001 British Development Minister Clare Short's intercession in Whitehall didn't stop Rwanda and Uganda banging war drums elsewhere. As Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni were s...
Vol 42 No 20 | RWANDA People's courts 12th October 2001 The caseload from the 1994 genocide has left 115,000 suspects in gaol, detained but not convicted, in conditions which human rights advocates call inhuman. A few alleged leaders fa...
Vol 42 No 19 | BURUNDIRWANDA Negating the negatives 28th September 2001 There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces', the hardline militias...
Vol 42 No 13 | RWANDA Kagame under siege 29th June 2001 The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs President Paul Kagame made his name as a military strategist, the successful head of Uganda's military intelligence until 1990, then leader of the forces that conquered his own cou...
Vol 41 No 21 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Conditional offers 27th October 2000 Fresh peace initiatives for the Democratic Republic of Congo look pointless, as government, rebels and their respective sponsors gear up for more fighting. The last regional summit...
Vol 41 No 13 | RWANDAUGANDA After Kisangani 23rd June 2000 After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Represen...
Vol 41 No 7 | RWANDA Bizimungu bust-up 31st March 2000 The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile An official of the ruling Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) described the resignation of President Pasteur Bizimungu as 'proof of a healthy democratic environment'. Vice-President a...