Vol 55 No 8 | RWANDA Kagame mourns – and warns 18th April 2014 The 20th commemoration of the genocide of 1994 found the President uncompromising towards France and others he sees as enemies President Paul Kagame's keynote speech at the Amahoro Stadium on 7 April urged everyone to face up to their responsibilities, since 'the people who planned and carried out the geno...
Vol 55 No 8 | RWANDA Militant remembrance 18th April 2014 Formally entitled 'Kwibuka 20' (we remember), with the motto 'Remember, Unite, Renew', the concerns of the present were never far away from the commemoration of the past. That geno...
Vol 55 No 6 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA The last straw 21st March 2014 Any escalation of the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after the 4 March attack on the Pretoria home of the exiled Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa now looks improbable....
Vol 55 No 2 | RWANDA Murder in the Michelangelo 16th January 2014 The killing of a political opponent to President Kagame in a Sandton hotel has riled Pretoria and could have wider consequences The arrest in Mozambique of three Rwandans this week in connection with the murder in South Africa of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's opposition leader and former spy chief, wil...
Vol 54 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kivu on the brink 6th September 2013 The M23 rebels have suffered heavy losses, so Kigali may have to choose between abandoning them or risking deeper involvement Tension between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa has escalated almost to open war after two weeks of renewed fighting in eastern Congo. The national army, the Forces armées de la r...
Vol 54 No 16 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23 takes a hit 1st August 2013 The army turns the tables on the rebels and Rwanda may find it problematic to continue its support for M23 Two weeks of sometimes brutal fighting between the Mouvement du 23 mars and the national army have ramped up the pressure on Kinshasa and Kigali to negotiate a settlement. The Rwan...
Vol 54 No 12 | RWANDATANZANIA Kagame flames Kikwete 7th June 2013 May’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa saw Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete ask if the Kigali-supported Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebels should negotiate with Kinshasa, why s...
Vol 54 No 8 | RWANDA Faustin's pact 12th April 2013 Faustin Twagiramungu was Prime Minister in 1994-96, returned from exile to lose the presidential election in 2003 and now wants another start (AC Vol 52 No 3, The political fallout...
Vol 53 No 22 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Uganda accused 2nd November 2012 A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended The United Nations Group of Experts on eastern Congo-Kinshasa has indicted the Ugandan government as co-sponsor of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebellion in Kivu alongside Rwanda...
Vol 53 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23’s other parent 19th October 2012 Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this news ...