Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From Rwanda’s New Times PROF. MANASSEH NSHUTI As our lawmakers proceed with the process of constitutional review aimed at amending article 101 and others that are out of touch with the current realities so as to sustain the exemplary social transformation the leadership of President Paul Kagame has delivered to the country, there are varied […]

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SOURCE KT Press KIGALI, Rwanda, Aug. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rwanda and Ethiopia have suggested new development models they believe can help Africa break away from the prescribed Western models. Leaders of the two countries and those from other states agreed that Africa should stop being bullied into “accepting policies that misrepresent us and do us harm in the end.” Speaking at a high-level […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: EUGENE KWIBUKA A governance model known as the democratic developmental state should be embraced by African countries in order to fast-track their development and pull millions of citizens out of poverty, participants at the Meles Zenawi Foundation’s inaugural symposium on development heard yesterday. Bringing together more than 200 delegates from African […]

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  At least 200 delegates from African governments and different institutions met in Kigali on Friday for a high level symposium on democratisation that was held under the auspices of Meles Zenawi Foundation and African Development Bank. The Meles Zenawi Foundation was established in memory of the former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who is […]

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From The Guardian A senior CNN executive has flown to Nairobi to apologise for coverage calling the country a “hotbed of terror” ahead of Barack Obama’s visit in July. Many Kenyans were outraged by the report, which suggested Obama was likely to be attacked during his historic visit to the land of his father’s birth. […]

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by RICHARD KARUGARAMA LEBERO The arrest and subsequent release of Lt Gen Karenzi Karake was far from a quest for justice. It was rather a politicisation of international law and sets a dangerous precedent for the principle of universal jurisdiction. It is therefore unsurprising that Spanish authorities admitted that Gen Karake committed no offence and […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: JAMES KARUHANGA The deteriorating political crisis in Burundi is a serious concern to the United Nations, Abdoulaye Bathily, the special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Central Africa, said yesterday. Bathily, who also heads the UN Office for Central Africa (Unoca), made the remarks after holding talks with President Paul […]

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In April 1994, the international community stood passively by while up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slain with bloody machetes wielded by their neighbors. It was genocide—planned and carried out by a government bent on annihilating the Tutsi people and those Hutu who disagreed with the annihilation. The United Nations secured 800 […]

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KIGALI, July 30 (Xinhua) — The proceedings to hear a case challenging Rwandan parliament’s move to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for third term started Wednesday at the Supreme Court. Rwandan Parliament in mid July voted to support a change to the constitution that would allow President Kagame to run […]

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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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