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Opposition Still Under Attack In Rwanda

Rwanda extends eviction threat to FDU member Theophile Ntirutwa.

(WASHINGTON DC) - In the wise and profound words of Winston Churchill:

There Can be no Impunity for Those Who Violate Human Rights

Wouldn't his appointment to this council be a contradictory appointment when the primary role of the UNSC is to maintain international peace and security?

(BOSTON) - Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, says Rwanda expects to become the African representative at the 2012 United Nations Security Council election.

With the support of East African Community (EAC) and the African Union (AU), Rwanda has put its bid out for the 2013 -2014 rotating seat at the United Nations Security Council to replace South Africa in January 2013.

Rwandan Politician Andrew Muganwa Languishes in Jail as Trial Stalls

Muganwa is known to espouse radical anti Kagame views and has refused to go into exile unlike most opposition politicians who have preferred to flee rather than languish in prison without hope of release.

(WASHINGTON DC) - It is more than five months since the leader of the unregistered Rwanda opposition political party NPDP-Ihumure was arrested and remanded at the Kimironko Prison in Kigali.

On a sunny afternoon in Boston... Rwanda Day 2012

How many have to die?

(BOSTON) - At the corner of Dartmouth and St. James in Boston, Massachusetts about one hundred people gathered for two separate but related reasons.

Rwanda: An Impossible PR for a Definitely Fading Image

Kagame counted on his remaining unconditional sponsors to support the Congolese M23 rebel movement, but he lamentably failed in his expectations.

(WASHINGTON DC) - All along his political leadership, the Rwandan president Paul Kagame has effectively and persistently played alternatively both the ugly and good characters of his personality.

No one is Free When Others are Oppressed

An opposition coalition has sent a letter to US government officials explaining the dangers of supporting the Rwandan Government.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Friday September 21st starts the beginning of Rwanda Day in Boston, MA.

The Minster of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo is scheduled to speak on Friday evening with The President of Rwanda Paul Kagame to address a crowd on Saturday afternoon.

Sudan: Humanitarian Access into Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States

Overview and Recommendations of USCIRF Issues New Policy Brief.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Agreements by the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) concerning aid operations are an initial step that may allow the international community to address the needs of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.

The signings by the GoS and the SPLM-N of separate Memorandums of Understanding on August 5, 2012 will hopefully allow humanitarian access into Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, if the parties can agree to the details of aid operations.

(UPDATE) Help Save My Friend: a Tortured Orphan in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Help one person escape a needless death...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - I have been in contact with a person whose entire family has been murdered by the rebel group M23.

What are they to do... what am I to do? I am hoping to attract the attention of a safe and trustworthy organization or individual to help deliver this person to safety as their life hangs in the balance with the M23 forces every day.

Hailemariam Desalegn as Ethiopia`s Anwar Sadat; fancy that!

Men like Hailemariam who showed readiness to be co-opted by joining the deceased’s party after it seized power have always been regarded with contempt or indifference.

(UGANDA) - Twelve days later after the state funeral of one of Africa’s ruthless and cunning strongman, Meles Zenawi, the ruling party in Ethiopia dominated by the deceased’s minority ethnic liberation front grudgingly decided on the chairmanship of Hailemriam Desalegn.

In so doing and to the satisfaction of “development partners,” notably United States, the ruling party confirmed Hailemariam as a replacement of the late “visionary” ruler of Ethiopia.

Behind the Presidential Curtains

Edited by: Jennifer Fierberg: Un-answered questions about the death of Gen Fred Rwigema.

(SALEM) - It has been nearly 22 years since Gen Fred Rwigema died in his mother-land leading before leading an exodus of Rwandan children who had been incarcerated in exile for over 30 years.

Fred Gisa Rwigema (10 April 1957 – 2 October 1990), born Emmanuel Gisa was a founding member and leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Rwigema was born in Gitarama, in the south of Rwanda.