Strategic Thinking on East Africa

By: ATHAN TASHOBYA 1994-2016. It’s twenty-two years ago today that the unimaginable happened; a government unleashing a militia of extremists to eliminate a section of the population. A hundred days later, the Genocide against the Tutsi had killed over a million Rwandans. It remains the fastest killing spree ever recorded. And, today, Rwandans will be joined […]

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President of Rwanda Paul Kagame fielded questions from students at Harvard’s Institute of Politics on Friday regarding censorship of the press, balancing democracy and progress, and his decision to run for an unprecedented third term following a constitutional referendum. The president spoke in front of a packed forum with police and secret service guarding all […]

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By AFP Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Burundi’s leaders of carrying out “massacres” on their people in his most critical speech yet of the crisis in the troubled neighbouring state. “People die every day, corpses litter the streets… How can the leaders allow their population to be massacred from morning to night?” Kagame said, […]

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Is Rwanda choosing impunity over international justice? Louise Mushikiwabo is this week’s guest on Conflict Zone, DW’s top political talk show. Louise Mushikiwabo on Conflict Zone The Foreign Minister of Rwanda accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of having a racial bias and of being little more than a tool for Western countries “to manipulate […]

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Queen Maxima of The Netherlands welcomes resident Paul Kagame of Rwanda for an audience at the King’s residence De Eikenhorst in Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 5 October 2015. Photo: PATRICK VAN KATWIJK / DPA / DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE/AFP KIGALI - Rwanda’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a legal challenge to constitutional changes designed to allow President Paul […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: JAMES KARUHANGA The significance of Rwandans, having the ability and resources to take care of themselves without depending on aid, was a key point President Paul Kagame drove home as thousands of Rwandans living abroad marked the seventh edition of Rwanda Day yesterday in the Netherlands. Highlighting the unity that characterizes […]

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Kigali: President Kagame has attributed Rwanda’s steady progress in the last decade to adoption of home-grown solutions. While addressing a High Level Meeting during the United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda convened under the theme: “A New Rural Development Paradigm and the Inclusive and Sustainable New Communities Model inspired by […]

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OSCAR KIMANUKA Democracy should be defined in its right context; where the public entrusts their power with elected individuals to lead the nation, state, or something of a similar nature on their behalf. Rwanda as a country espouses the ideals of democracy; the supreme powers are fully vested in the people and exercised by them directly and through a system […]

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The Rwandan government has appointed a Constitution Review Commission despite an ongoing Supreme Court case seeking to block the process to amend the country’s Constitution to remove presidential term limits. A Cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame on Wednesday named seven members of the commission that will assist both chambers of the Constitution to […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times JUNIOR SABENA MUTABAZI On September 4, John Kirby, a US Department of State spokesperson released a press statement cautioning the decision by Rwanda’s Parliament to establish a Constitutional Reform Commission, which in the view of the State Department he represents may “amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame […]

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