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• Rwanda: Police Beat a Pregnant Woman to Death

  

  More than 60% of the RPF selected Rwandan parliament are women. The irony is that they sit in that institution while not caring much about the welfare of many o... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Who is Thinking for Africa?

  

  DiamondsThinking understood as the fact of analyzing complex situations and finding them appropriate solutions- is not for everyone because it is a difficult... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 SOCIETY

• The Challenge of Understanding Our Own African Reality

  

  Thabo MbekiThe former South African President Thabo Mbeki is likened to an intellectual by many in the ranks of the ANC camp. For that reason, the majority of... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Play Your Part: The Book In Progress

  

  Franicis Muhoozi, myself and Elysee Nyilimanzi at the British Department for International Development after the publication of the UN Mapping Report on... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Kagame: “Our Guy” Or His Own Man?

  

  This is one of the many questions, people ask, reflecting on who the Rwandan president works for particularly looking at the scale of atrocities he is... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Barriers to African Regional Integration: the International Aid System and...

  By Alex de WaalWhy is the entire African continental economy no larger than Spain’s, at $580 billion? Why is the combined GDP of the 40-plus countries that lie... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 SOCIETY

• The World Needs Peace – but Not a Pax Americana

  

  by Cynthia McKinneyFormer Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who last week completed a peace mission to Syria along with former U.S. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Message of Solidarity with Kilombo 2013 Conference

  

  Kwame NkrumahAs the 2nd Annual Kilombo Conference starts this Friday 27th September 2013 in Peki Ghana, it is critical for the African Diaspora and Africans... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda: Presidential Advisory Council Members Meet on Sunday 22/09/13 in New York

  From a national strategic perspective, the Presidential Advisory Council [PAC] structure in itself and initial conception would be a significant means for the... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Big Shifts in Social and Political Life Require an Act of the Imagination

  

  By Mahmood MamdaniSteve BikoThe following is an excerpt from - Africa Awakening The Emerging Revolutions - edited by Firoze Manji and Sokari Ekine. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Creating African Synergies Against Third Terms

  

  Source: Snakes Leaders – Africa’s political succession. Marshall van Valen/ The African ReportWe have had the Arab Spring which started in January 2011 with... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Is It Right for Zimbabwe to Re-engage with the West?

  

  Robert MugabeThe question here raised is prompted by the weight of continued Western sanctions on Zimbabwe following its adopted policy of indigenization applie... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Kagame’s Visit to Toronto on 28/09/13: the Preparations Continue

  As this happened during his last visit to the United Kingdom last May for his Rwanda Days, the president’s entourage is reluctant to communicate to those to be... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SOCIETY

• So Full That Detainees Are Handcuffed on Windows

  

  Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa: one of the four who are still detained by the police and whose head has been seriously injured by the beating according to sources i... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Paul Kagame to Be Received on 28/09/13 in Toronto in a COWBOY Style

  Almost two decades of destabilization of the Great Lakes region to control the source of minerals, which is the Democratic Republic of Congo, has made the... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Upcoming Visit of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Canada: 28/09/13

  For his upcoming visit to Canada, the Rwandan president Paul Kagame will apparently be received in a true COWBOY style, according to the organizing committee. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Illegal to Complain in Rwanda: 40 Students Imprisoned

  

  Some students are allowed to pursue university studies while others cannot because they are not given bursaries or loans like others. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Who Has Kagame Been Fooling with His Elections?

  

  Effectively there is no political opposition to the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Why then entering the ring to fight an absent opponent? Guess why?On September 16th... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Don’t Be Blind This Time; with Less, Change Can Happen. Only Play Your Part.

  

  To exist one has to resist.When you cannot see around you, of course it is difficult to react to what is happening.Our people were taken away from our motherlan... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes – Saturday 14/09/13 [Piccadilly Circus/London] @11.00 Am

  

  Some of the victims of wars and genocides in the Great Lakes region left by the road not properly buried.Kasereka Roger was among the victims of Laurent... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 SOCIETY