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Rwanda

Population: 13.86m
GDP: $13.7bn
Debt: 69.9% of GDP (2024)

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EU envoy to great lakes

A three-month impasse over the EU’s choice of Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region has been resolved with the appointment of Swedish diplomat Johan Borgstam. The...


More Soviet than usual

Winning the three previous elections with more than 90% was not enough for President Paul Kagame. Partial results announced on 16 July gave the president a Soviet-style 99.15% with...


A landslide victory foretold, again

Two of the strongest opposition candidates have been barred from running, handing incumbent Paul Kagame another Soviet-style win

Few Rwandans are expecting surprises when they head to the polls on 15 July to vote in the country’s general election. The three candidates cleared to run for President &ndas...


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Whitehall's migrant deal with Kigali set to collapse

The Labour Party, currently 12 points ahead in opinion polls, has promised to scrap the Rwanda asylum plan if it wins the general election

The British government's migration deal with Rwanda is now highly likely to collapse without a single asylum-seeker being deported, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that ...

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New diplomatic chill between US and Kigali over M23

Washington blames the Rwandan army and the rebel militia group for the bombing of a displacement camp in Goma

The diplomatic chill between Rwanda and the United States has got colder after Washington implicated the Rwandan army in mortar attacks that killed at least 16 people in the area a...

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Thirty years on, genocide haunts the region

Among the most effective in Africa, Rwanda's army has exported the conflict to eastern Congo-Kinshasa, reshaping national politics en route

The genocide of Tutsi and massacre of Hutu 'moderates' launched on 7 April 1994 and perpetrated by the Forces Armées Rwandaises (FAR), and the Interahamwe Hutu militia it wo...


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