Paul Kagame

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has started to lay the groundwork for constitutional changes to allow him to stand again beyond the currently permissible two terms (AC Vol 56 No 6 No room at the top)...

Britain's arrest of Rwandan spy chief General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake on charges of crimes against humanity was either an unavoidable European treaty obligation a massive bureaucratic foul-up or a deft diplomatic move to voice disapproval of President Paul Kagame's campaign to change the constitution and secure a third term (AC Vol 56 No 6 No room at the top)...

Convened to discuss the regional 'security and humanitarian situation' the summit brought together some of Africa's longest serving leaders including Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni – all firm fans of extended presidential terms the issue that sparked the latest Burundi violence...

Other Presidents seeking to stay on past their legal limit include Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...

The campaign is now in full swing to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term...

The online bulletin Inyereri News a long-time critic of President Paul Kagame noted the corpses' hands were bound in the 'Kandoya' manner a hallmark of RPF executions in the 1990-94 Rwandan civil war...

Beyond Burkina Faso's borders the drama is being watched intently in countries whose Presidents are planning to extend their rule namely: Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Togo's Faure Gnassingbé Benin's Yayi Boni Djibouti's Omar Guelleh Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza and Rwanda's Paul Kagame...

Kabila and President Paul Kagame have a fractious relationship and their private interests have sometimes coincided while national interests and armies frequently clash...

The arrests have observers wondering if the idea is to keep President Paul Kagame's inner circle in a state of permanent apprehension whether there have simply been differences of opinion or whether a plot has really been uncovered...

Much was made of the 'new generation' of African leaders such as Ethiopia's late Meles Zenawi Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and even Eritrea's Issayas until relations soured irredeemably...