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• Tanzania: Statement on Claims by the News of Rwanda

  

  President Kikwete is deeply hurt by these lies and his humble advice to the editors of this publication is to stop fabricating untrue claims which potentially... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 SOCIETY

• The Hague, London and Paris Protests Against KKK of the Great Lakes Region

  

  Joweri Kaguta Museveni, Paul Kagame and Joseph Kabila, respectively Presidents of Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo, are those referred to in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Congolese Genocide and Smartphones

  http://www.nouvo.ch/2014/01/des-smartphones-%C3%A9quitables“That you like it or not, when you buy a device like this one [smartphone], you participate... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Victoire Ingabire: 4 Years Today in Rwanda

  

  ’ Wherever I will fall, those left behind please do carry on from where I will have left,’ Victoire Ingabire.On January 16th, 2010, she lands at the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

  

  By Robin Philpot “…essential reading.” Edward S. HermanAn accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 SOCIETY

• DRC: We Are All Responsible. We Should Feel Revolted and Do Something.

  Today Wednesday 15/01/14 leaders of the countries members of ICGLR are meeting in Luanda – Angola. One of the points on their agenda is the question of... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 SOCIETY

• 'Think Tanks in America' by Thomas Medvetz

  

  Some of the first posts I wrote in On Think Tanks were based on Thomas Medvetz work. In the time since he has written a book on think tanks in the United... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Could Karegeya Assassination Speed up Change in Rwanda?

  

  The answer is YES according to the scenario put forward by AFRICOM study undertaken in 2011.Jennifer G. Cooke, author of the studyOne of the thousands of victim... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Madame President? No, Madame Prisoner: Rwanda’s Victoire Ingabire

  

  by Ann GarrisonVictoire Ingabire, imprisoned Rwandan woman political leader who was sentenced to 15 years of jail on 13/12/13. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Memories of Gisenyi and Goma

  

  By Ambrose NzeyimanaNorth Kivu areas that saw the recent defeat of M23Goma is a city at the shores of the Lake Kivu. It is located in the Congolese province of... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 SOCIETY

• DRC: Prediction for a 2016 New Dawn

  

  By Kambale Musavuli They did not realize that by making Mamadou Ndala the commander of the operations in the East he would become a hero… After spending a few... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Death Didn’t Take a Christmas Break in Congo!

  

  Picture of Ba Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, by Don’t Be Blind This TimeCongo faced an attempted coup on December 30, 2013 and 143 innocent people were killed,... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Rwandan National Congress: The Last Call

  

  Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa and Paul KagameFrom the history books about Rwanda there is nowhere to be found any account of criminality of similar magnitude and... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 SOCIETY

• October 1st, 1990 Invasion of Rwanda and Identity of the Invaders

  

  Young people without official employment across Rwanda are being round up. On 23/08/12, this group was taken into police custody in the Rusizi area. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Academics Affirm Kagame’s Tactical Action to Sacrifice Tutsi in 1994 to Gain...

  

  Since the 80s the Great Lakes region has experienced genocides, war crimes, crimes against humanity, so much so that the entire area has become like a cemetery... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Why Africans Should Celebrate Thomas Sankara

  

  By Michael Mungai“The recent sensation about Joseph Kony should be a lesson to all Africans that if we don’t select the narratives that we would like to... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Human Intelligence and Race: an Enlightening Documentary

  Rageh Omar:“…IQ tests are not a measure of innate intelligence. They are a reflection of how you were brought up, testing if your parents gave you toys... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Congolese Awakening: Paris, December 21st, 2013 [remember Why They Died]

  They made it look like the American civil rights movement of the 60s. At that time, they were people of colour marching in many US cities claiming equality of... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Are UN Peacekeeping Operations Causing More Instability Than They Are Resolving...

  

  By Bosco MutarambirwaCongolese protesters on November 28th, 2012 in front of the Rwandan High Commission in London – UK.One may reasonably argue that Rwanda,... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Thabo Mbeki Wrong Analysis on Eastern Congo and Rwanda

  In a rather overall interesting interview that the former South African president Thabo Mbeki gives to Mike Hanna of Al Jazeera, there are two issues he... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY