Strategic Thinking on East Africa

By JOSEPH RWAGATARE Another one who has never set foot here, or if he has, his head was in another place, writes that Rwanda is ruled by monsters and blood-thirsty individuals and cannot understand why a British court let one of them free. For him and others like him, Rwanda is a country where people […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times GERALD MBANDA The recent interview by a one John Ray of ITV, a British television network, with Jean Kambanda, the Genocide prime minister, who is currently serving a life sentence in Mali, in which he denied his role in committing the Genocide, and ‘justified’ why he armed the militia to kill […]

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PUBLISHED: April 22, 2015 ARTHUR ASIIMWE Two weeks ago, the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) rejected a complaint lodged by a group of scholars, researchers and journalists questioning the credibility of the infamous BBC documentary, ‘Rwanda, the Untold Story.’ Late last year, a group of about 50 individuals, conversant with the subject of Genocide against Tutsi, […]

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From the BBC By Yalda HakimBBC News, Asmara Eritrea is considered one of the most repressive and secretive states on earth. The UN says forced labour and detention without trial are common. There have been no elections in the country since independence in 1993 and President Isaias Afewerki has been in power for almost 22 […]

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March 10, 2015-For the first time in ten years, Eritrea has allowed BBC cameras inside the country for the program, Our World: Inside Eritrea with Yalda Hakim. The program will air March 13, 2015 on BBC World News. Check listings with your local satellite tv provider. Strathink invites readers to watch the program and comment […]

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By: THE NEW TIMES PUBLISHED: March 09, 2015 Last week, the BBC was in the news yet again, for the wrong reasons. One of its journalists accused Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of playing the “Holocaust card” during his address to the joint US Congress and Senate session last week. As was to be expected, the powerful […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: LONZEN RUGIRA PUBLISHED: March 02, 2015 And so, the BBC finds itself in a pickle. Why? Because even when it found itself in a hole, it kept digging thus disregarding the first rule of anyone who would find themselves in such unfortunate circumstances. If you attended – and paid attention during – […]

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March 1, 2015-Dear readers, On Sundays we will present to you a list of winners and losers of the week. For the week of February 22, 2015, we present the following: Losers Number 1 on our list is President Salva Kiir of South Sudan. While IGAD and the rest of the international community are losing […]

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By: JEAN-MARIE KABAREGA PUBLISHED: February 01, 2015 A few weeks ago, I watched with amazement the documentary, Rwanda’s Untold Story, produced by Jane Corbin and broadcast by the BBC. I revisit this documentary because its ramifications are ongoing. Jane Corbin, seen in the documentary, looks like a determined woman who does not hide her anger. She says that […]

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By: GITURA MWAURA PUBLISHED: January 03, 2015 New Times GITURA MWAURA 2014 is now passé. We look to the New Year with the threat of terrorism as real as it has ever been. Indeed, memories of terror attacks in the region remain fresh, some of the most horrid having occurred just last November. In two incidents in […]

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