Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From Rwanda’s New Times JEAN B. KAYIGAMBA Oxford, UK–Exactly about a month ago, Lt Gen Karenzi Karake, Chief of Rwanda’s National Intelligence and Security Services, was arrested in London UK, as he tried to board a flight back to Kigali. He had been in the country on an official visit during which he met his […]

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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame attends a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in this January 24, 2014 file photo. Western nations offer only modest remonstrations over what they see as democratic shortcomings in Rwanda, thankful for the oasis of order that has replaced the genocide they failed to […]

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Rwanda parliament in a past session. Rwandan legislators have voted in support of a referendum that will allow President Paul Kagame a third term in power, backing a petition signed by millions of citizens. FILE PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA By AGENCIES Rwandan legislators have voted in support of a referendum that will allow President Paul Kagame […]

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Rwanda’s main opposition party opened a case in the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to prevent constitutional change that would allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term seven-year in office. Reuters The debate about term limits and challenges to veteran leaders has flared in several places in Africa. The United States and […]

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PROF. MANASSEH NSHUTI The change-with-stability debate has drawn some reactions and, of course, not surprisingly, from the wrong quarters; most if not all based outside the country. The characters question the authenticity and intention and some of the arguments are not only irrelevant but also out of context. Some sections of foreign media, especially Voice […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times THIERRY KEVIN GATETE Dear learned friends, I call on you today, painfully, because I have come to a point where I question my vocation, looking at the abuse that is consistently done in the name of justice, which we were all called to defend, and the law, which we took an […]

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From The Guardian David Smith in Johannesburg Cattle herders poisoned Rwanda’s last remaining lions after parks were left unmanaged and occupied by displaced people in the wake of the 1994 genocide, according to the conservation group African Parks, which is organising the repopulation drive. It said two parks in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province with “relatively […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: EDWIN MUSONI Thousands of Rwandans and well-wishers Wednesday afternoon gathered at the gates of the United Kingdom’s High Commission in Kacyiru, Kigali to protest against the recent arrest of the head of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). Lt Gen Karenzi Karake, who was in London on official duty, was […]

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PRESS RELEASE London — Human Rights Watch is monitoring the case of Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, head of the Rwandan intelligence services, who was arrested in London on June 20, 2015, on a European arrest warrant following a request issued by a Spanish judge. In the event that Karenzi Karake is extradited to Spain, where a […]

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The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), in power since the end of the 1994 genocide, approved a petition backing a reform of the Constitution that will allow President Paul Kagame to seek a new term in the 2017 presidential election. “Considering the wishes of many Rwandans and those of members of the RPF, we support […]

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