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RWANDA: AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO EMBEZZLE PUBLIC FUNDS WITH IMPUNITY
Over 20 billion (20,000,000,000) Frw or $40 million US dollars have been embezzled from Rwanda national treasury. One gets these numbers by putting together figures and spreadsheets that were recently…
Explosions at Congo Weapons Depot Kill Scores
By ADAM NOSSITER DAKAR, Senegal — A series of explosions at a weapons depot in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, killed scores of people on Sunday, according…
Priest Hormisdas Nsengimana stands trial for genocide in Rwanda
When a priest is tried for genocide in Rwanda, the challenges of finding the truth in cases of crimes against humanity are exposed in forensic detail. Priest Hormisdas Nsengimana stands…
Charles Ntakirutinka yafunguwe
Charles Ntakirutinka wahoze ari ministri w’ibikorwa remezo mu Rwanda yafunguwe kuri uyu wa kane, amaze imyaka icumi muri gereza. Ntakirutinka yafunzwe amaze guhamwa n’ibyaha bitatu byo kugambanira igihugu, gukwirakwiza ibihuha…
Who is Paul Kagame
Lanky and soft-spoken, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame portrays himself as a modern-day politician who sees social media as championing democracy and development. With a website that boasts Twitter, Flickr, podcasts…
Behind the Presidential curtains
A president who once assaulted a subordinate's teenage maid, I might admit how after a long time I keep recollecting on a few incidents that I witnessed as a young…
Experts condemn expanding number of psychiatric disorders
Experts condemn expanding number of psychiatric disorders Fri 10 Feb, 2012 01:00 pm GMT © Simone van den Berg - Shyness in children, depression stemming from bereavement and internet addiction…
Shy children could be labelled as mentally ill
Experts condemn expanding number of psychiatric disorders Fri 10 Feb, 2012 01:00 pm GMT © Simone van den Berg - Shyness in children, depression stemming from bereavement and internet addiction…
THE WESTERN HEART OF DARKNESS: Mineral-Rich Congo Ravaged by Genocide and Western Plunder
Rarely has Western savagery been more destructive than in the Congo. After 115 years of Belgian colonialism and neo-colonialism, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today is a war-ravaged, balkanized…
Reaction on the arrest of the Rwanda Defence Force Generals RNC/FDU inkingi.
20th January 2012 FDU-INKINGI and RNC Statement on the suspension, arrest and detention of Senior Military Officers of Rwanda Defence Forces. Three Rwandan generals and a colonel were suspended from…