Tag Archives: Paul Kagame
By Alyson Chadwick “One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin Today is the anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide. In the span of 100 days, 800,000 people were murdered with machetes. That is … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Rwanda
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Chuck Todd, Clinton, IndepthAfrica, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
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Why has there been no serious UN investigation into this crime? Nineteen years ago today the Falcon 50 Jet carrying two heads of state in Central Africa was shot down by a surface to air missile. Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Burundi, Indepth Africa Magazine, Juvénal Habyarimana, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, United Nations
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The President and the First Lady lay a wreath at Kigali Memorial Center. (photo Village Urugwiro) In the next 100 days, Rwandans will the 19th time commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis which cost more than one million lives. … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Pan African News, Rwanda
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Tagged First Lady, IndepthAfrica, Jeannette Kagame, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Stade Amahoro, Tutsi
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Nearly three years ago, international student Claudine Kuradusenge moved to Utah from Belgium and enrolled at Utah Valley University. She was just six years old when she moved from her home country of Rwanda to Belgium, only a few months … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Rwanda
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Tagged George Mason University, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Kigali International Airport, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, Utah Valley University
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By Andrew Mwenda How the West is seeking to usurp Africa’s struggle for freedom and democracy using a humanitarian language Since the end of the Cold War, a movement to save Africa from Africans has grown and gained momentum across … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Op-ed, Rwanda, Senegal, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa Magazine, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kabila, KIGALI, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Thomas Sankara
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by ANDRE VLTCHEK In the three Western outposts of the eastern part of Africa – Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya – the opposition had either been totally smashed or is rotting in jail. Alternatively, it has ‘ceased to exist’. In East … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Op-ed, Rwanda, Uganda
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Tagged Congo, Goma, Indepth Africa Magazine, Kenya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Tutsi, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
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We call upon the government of Paul Kagame to release those arrested in today swoop, and ensure that police officers and their hierarchy are held accountable for their actions. File photo of supporters of Madame Victoire Ingabire, courtesy: therisingcontinent.wordpress.com (KIGALI) … read more »
Thedailybeast For the past three days, Bosco Ntaganda, also known as “The Terminator,” has been holed up at the American embassy in Rwanda. One of Africa’s most wanted war criminals, Ntaganda was a leader of the M23 in eastern … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somali, South Africa, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Bosco Ntaganda, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Hague, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Ntaganda, Paul Kagame, Rwanda
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by D.H. | NAIROBI,Economist BOSCO NTAGANDA’S career as one of Africa’s most-wanted war criminals ended in unlikely fashion when he walked into the American Embassy in Rwanda on March 18th. Embassy officials said he removed a disguise he had been wearing and … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somali, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Bosco Ntaganda, bosco ntaganda 2012, bosco ntaganda biography, bosco wong, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hague, International Criminal Court, Ntaganda, Paul Kagame, Rwanda
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A version of this post ran on the author’s blog, Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author’s own. The ‘heroic’ leaders who follow notorious African dictators to power frequently fall from grace themselves. If Morgan Tsvangirai replaces Robert Mugabe as … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, Mobutu Sese Seko, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change, Nelson Mandela, Paul Kagame, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
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Aid to Rwanda will be funnelled through charities rather than the scandal-hit government, Justine Greening revealed oday. The International Development Secretary said the UK will give £16million to Rwanda after earlier halting it because of the central African state’s support … read more »
RPF developed and perfected a psyche of perpetual victimhood to the point they use it as one of their best political tool. Deo Lukyamuzi (WASHINGTON DC) – Rwanda has faced numerous challenges in the past year with their credibility and … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Letters & Interviews, Rwanda
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Juvénal Habyarimana, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan government, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Washington DC
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Since the onset of the global financial crisis in the third quarter of 2007, emerging markets gained more prominence as they drove economic growth. Investors took an interest in emerging markets, which offered attractive investment opportunities relative to America and … read more »
Posted in Article, Economy, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Arab Spring, Economic Community of West African States, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, Indepth Africa Magazine, Paul Kagame, South Africa, Southern African Development Community, World Economic Forum
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De-Risking Africa was the title of the main session on Africa at the 2013 World Economic in Davos, Switzerland. On 23 January a distinguished panel, including two African presidents, two from the private sector and one human rights lawyer met … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Africa Progress Panel, DAVOS, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, Jacob Zuma, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, World Bank
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Why the celebrated Rwandan president really deserves an indictment. When Rwandan-backed rebels recently took Goma, the biggest city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Paul Kagame had every reason to think the world would give … read more »
President Kagame addresses Rwanda Leaders Fellowship at the Prayer Breakfast – Kigali, 13 January 2013 President Paul Kagame has expressed his disappointment in the western countries, stating that it is not their place to order Rwandans around regarding what they … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAFrica Spotlight, Jim Inhofe, Kagame, KIGALI, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda news, rwandan news, United States
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The UN has condemned Rwanda’s role in the carnage in the Congo for supplying arms and aid to the M23 rebels fighting the Congolese army in northern Congo yet provides the Rwandan military ten$ of million$ in arms and aid … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, Columnist, Congo, Thomas C. Mountain
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Tagged Congo, Congo news, Democratic Republic Congo, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Susan Rice, Uganda
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The Rwandan reality known to the world is the RPF version simply because it has not been challenged for 18 years. (Canada) – Yes, Rwanda is a normal country, a normal country with a tragic part of its history but … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Democratic Republic Congo, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, KIGALI, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Rwandan Patriotic Front
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By Michael Keating There is an old saying, ‘if you’re a hammer, you will see everything else as a nail.’ Today there is no bigger hammer in the world than the U.S. military, and in one of its newest interests, … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Paul Kagame, Somalia, United States, United States Africa Command, Yoweri Museveni
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By Theogene Rudasingwa The international community (read, Western powers) have put pressure on Kagame to have his creation and proxy, M23, withdraw from Goma. President Kabila is being pressured to talk to M23, to listen to their grievances. As we … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, Uganda
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, DRC, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Col Dr. Ndahiro Emmanuel, a historical confidant and former spy of President Kagame has been denied entry to the US prestigious Fort Leavenworth military academy After receiving the information regarding the attack of Rwanda in 1990, like many other young … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Rwanda, Uganda
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Tagged Col Ndahiro, Fort Leavenworth, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Ndahiro, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, ugandan news, Yoweri Museveni
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By Milton Allimadi The violent plundering of Congo’s immense riches which began under King Leopold of the Belgians continues by outsiders as the world watches and even acquiesces to the criminal attacks. The slaughter of women and children — the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Rwanda, Uganda
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Tagged Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda, United Nation
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British aid to Rwanda is ‘funding a dictator’ and worsening the misery of his victims, a former senior aide to the African state’s president claimed last night. The £270million of aid earmarked for the country over the next three years … read more »
Kampala. President Jakaya Kikwete and other regional leaders called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel group M23 yesterday to end hostilities and leave a key eastern town they seized in a rampant advance that has sparked fears of … read more »
Posted in Central Africa, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda
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Tagged Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Jakaya Kikwete, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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For the last several months Rwandans, Congolese, Africans and the international community have watched as the predictable drama from Paul Kagame‘s regime plays out once again in the Kivu region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. With the birth of … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, United Nations, United States
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Rebel forces in eastern Congo say they planned to take control of the whole of the vast central African country after they captured the eastern town of Goma while United Nations peacekeepers looked on. A spokesman for the M23 rebels, … read more »
For Africa to take its rightful place and be more relevant in today’s world, it is going to need visionary leadership and cooperation, President Paul Kagame said. The President made the remarks, Saturday, while addressing members of the Oxbridge Club … read more »
document President Paul Kagame ended a two- day tour of Nigeria with a speech as the guest speaker at the annual Spring Lecture held by the Oxbridge Club. The Oxbridge Club is a grouping of alumni of Oxford and Cambridge … read more »
Posted in Documents, Nigeria, Rwanda
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Tagged East African Community, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Paul Kagame, President of the United States, Rwanda, Rwanda news, United States
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Rwanda National Congress (RNC) condemns Kagame’s regine for sentencing Victoire Ingabire to eight years in jail. Today, the High Court in Kigali, Rwanda, sentenced Madame Victoire Ingabire, the President of FDU-inkingi, to eight years in jail on flimsy grounds of … read more »
- Victorie Ingabire returned to Rwanda in 2010 in order to register her party and run for the Presidential seat against Paul Kagame. She stepped off of the plane went to a genocide memorial site where she spoke to supporters … read more »
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