From Kenya’s anti-finance-bill uprising to youth demonstrations in Uganda and the more recent unrest in Tanzania, Kagame said these protests are not random flare-ups but clear signs that governments have lost touch with their populations.
Last week, President Paul Kagame’s Press Secretary, Stéphanie Nyombayire called out Belgium’s “hypocrisy” in accusing Rwanda of mineral exploitation in DR Congo, despite the European country’s colonial exploitation of DR Congo and building its wealth from the conflict-ridden country.
British foreign minister David Lammy told parliament on Tuesday Rwanda received over 1 billion dollars in global aid every year, including around 32 million pounds ($39.80 million) of bilateral UK assistance but “all of that is under threat when you attack your neighbours”.
The M23, a Rwanda-backed armed group, has seized most of Goma, a key city of a million people in the mineral-rich eastern DR Congo. Analysts say their motives combine security and economic interests with the deadly momentum of war. Why did Rwanda and M23 take Goma? Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says its priority in the […]
The latest advances are part of a major escalation of a decades-old conflict over power, identity and resources that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million since its recent resurgence.
According to Kagame, SAMIDRC’s intervention has not only failed to bring peace but has exacerbated the conflict by undermining the previous efforts of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF).
To put it bluntly, a group of UN experts maintains the Rwandan army is in “de facto control of M23 operations”, detailing how M23 recruits are trained under Rwandan supervision and supported by high-tech Rwandan weaponry.
Angola had been mediating talks between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame until they broke down in December
Rwigara was barred from the 2017 race over accusations she had forged supporters’ signatures for her application. She was arrested and charged with forgery and inciting insurrection, and held behind bars for more than a year.
Rwanda will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in July next year, when President Paul Kagame will seek to extend his roughly three decades in control of the East African country. A presidential order in the official gazette said voting for president and 53 deputies in the lower house of parliament would happen across the country […]
Rwandan police on Thursday announced the arrest of six people including the owner of a popular YouTube channel and three opposition party members for “spreading rumours” intended to undermine the government. The arrests came two weeks after a court sentenced a prominent YouTube commentator and genocide survivor to 15 years in prison for “inciting violence” […]
While Kenyans are seriously hoping that our government gets back to it’s sense and help common mwanachi and make Kenyans proud again, Paul Kagame, even though an open dictator and killer of his opponents, he has launched the first of its kind African smartphone manufacturing plant in Kigali. Pan-African conglomerate Mara Group, has opened its […]
After a series of well-informed and researched articles from the Chief editor of Kenya Insights highlighting back to back in-depth details of how and what 3 Kenyans are going through in Rwanda, the Rwandese Department of Justice has finally done the much-anticipated worry of jailing the Kenyan entrepreneur and investor Charle Kinuthia two years in […]
