Strategic Thinking on East Africa

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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By: JAMES KARUHANGA A German court will on Monday rule on a long-running case against two leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) militia accused of masterminding massacres in eastern DR Congo from their homes in Germany. The trial of FLDR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy, Straton Musoni, began on May 4, 2011, […]

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DRC map, North Kivu province Reuters September 25, 2015 3:08 PM KINSHASA, D.R.C.—At least eight people were killed late Thursday in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation. Gunmen raided the camp in the village […]

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From Rwanda’s New Times By: JAMES KARUHANGA Human Rights Watch’s report that government operates an unofficial detention centre in the country is baseless, the government has said. The US-based organisation said in a report, released yesterday, that Rwandan authorities are unlawfully holding some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens in an unofficial detention centre, naming Gikondo […]

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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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A French court has said no to the extradition of a Rwandan genocide suspect, accused of inciting the murder of monks in the monastery where he worked. Campaigners say they hope Joseph Habyarimana will face trial in France. Habyarimana faces charges of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity in Rwanda for his alleged part […]

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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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By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Rwanda’s Supreme Court said it would hear a case brought by the main opposition party that aims to block changing the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third, seven-year term. The debate about term limits has flared in several countries in Africa. The […]

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Addis Ababa, 8 September, 2015(WIC)-A team from the African Union (AU) is in the country to conduct consultations on the establishment of the African Union Human Rights Memorial (AUHRM), which is spearheaded by Rwanda and Ethiopia. The meeting, that was facilitated by AU’s Director of Political Affairs, Dr Khabele Matlosa, sought to adopt a concept […]

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