CANADA'S REFUSAL TO ALLOW UGANDAN LGBT ACTIVISTS INTO THE COUNTRY SPEAKS TO A WIDER HYPOCRISY By Muna Mire May 29 2014 A contingent of Ugandan LGBT activists were recently denied visitor visas to attend World Pride 2014, which will be held in Toronto this summer. The move comes as a surprise given the Canadian government's strong, condemnatory stance on Uganda's repressive regime criminalizing homosexuality. The contingent of activists comprised of ten men and women who are all currently risking their lives in the fight for LGBT rights on the ground in Uganda—were invited to a human rights conference at the University of Toronto taking place June 25-27. Just one member of the contingent, keynote speaker Dr. Frank Mugisha, a highly prominent advocate and a 2014 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, is able to come to Canada on a multiple-entry visa he had been issued for previous travels. Bre...
Comatose Burundi Student to be Flown Home: Brutally Beaten up in Punjab. IBTimes (India) - World 12:07 30-May-14May 30, 2014 16:35 IST Photo: Yannick Nihangaza, a Burundi national, had come to India to study Computer Science. It's been over two years that Burundi national Yannick Nihangaza has been lying in a vegetative state in India, where he had come to pursue higher studies. However, the Punjab government has finally decided to bear the cost of flying Yannick back to his country in an air ambulance. On 22 April 2012, the 24-year-old, who was pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Lovely Professional University (LPU), was attacked by nine youngsters in Jalandhar, in what is believed to be a racially provacated ambush. Yannick was brutally beaten up and left for dead. The attack left Yannick in a comatose state, and it is understood that the youngster has no chance of ever making it ...
Rwanda National Congress goes for new faces in party elections  The East African, 3 hours ago By Joint Report The EastAfrican Posted Saturday, May 31 2014 at 14:51 IN SUMMARY Party announced that it will not participate in the 2017 presidential elections. Save for Dr Theogene Rudasingwa, a former director of Cabinet in President Paul Kagame's office, the opposition group said former officials will serve the party in other capacities. Observers say omission of two former senior state officials who still cause unease in Kigali could be a calculated move to remove "most wanted men" from the party's leadership. The Rwanda National Congress, an exiled opposition group operating from Washington, last week held elections that injected fresh blood into the party's leadership. However, the party announced that it will not participate in the 2017 presidential elections because it wan...
Kigali, Dar face off again over DRC conflict   Diplomatic tensions between Tanzania and Rwanda appeared set to escalate as the two countries once again traded accusation over the latter's alleged backing of rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. TEA Graphic The East African, 4 hours ago By JOINT REPORT The EastAfrican Posted Saturday, May 31 2014 at 14:51 IN SUMMARY This is not the first time the countries are trading barbs. Tension was initially sparked off by President Jakaya Kikwete's suggestion that the Rwandan government should hold peace talks with the FDLR rebel group to end violence in the eastern DRC. Sources say the soured relations between the two vitiates the atmosphere required to promote the integration process during Heads of State Summit needed to sign off on key protocols. Diplomatic tensions between Tanzania and Rwanda appeared set to escalate as the two c...
Rwandan rebels begin to surrender, but demand talks with Kigali Photo: A militant from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) squats near a pile of weapons after their surrender in Kateku, a small town in eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), May 30, 2014. (Reuters) - Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began what they claimed was the first step in disarming their fighters on Friday, but warned that continuing the process would depend on the government in Kigali agreeing to talks. Kigali needs to come to the table now. I agree with the Kigali line that you do not negotiate with terrorists and that is the only possible way to describe the FDLR. This partial surrender however changes the dynamics somewhat and if Rwanda is serious about cleaning this mess up now is the time to compromise. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) ...
Tanzania-Rwanda relations may worsen - MPs IPPmedia - 12 hours ago BY POLYCARP MACHIRA 31st May 2014 Photo: Ezekiel Wenje A war of words between Tanzania and Rwanda may soon resurface as the parliament was this week dragged into discussing tension between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Relations between Tanzania and Rwanda took a plunge in May 2013 following President Jakaya Kikwete's appeal to Rwanda to engage FDRL rebels in talks. Media reported that Kikwete's suggestion at a meeting of the Great Lakes countries, which met on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, did not go down well with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Rwandan government links the FDLR with the 1994 genocide, in which over 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed. M23, which dominated the North Kivu Province since the end of the Second Congo War in 2003 b...
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T he FDLR Pretext Collapses Under the Weight of Documented Plunder Introduction: A Battle That Tells the Truth When Rwandan-backed RDF/M23 forces fought with extraordinary ferocity to seize and hold Rubaya — a remote mining town in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo — the stated justification was security. Kigali's consistent public line has been that its military presence in the DRC is a response to the threat posed by the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group whose leaders include individuals linked to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. This narrative has been accepted, qualified, or left insufficiently challenged by Western governments and multilateral institutions for over a decade. The Battle of Rubaya strips that narrative bare. What unfolded in Rubaya was not a counter-insurgency operation against genocidal remnants. It was a sustained military campaign — reinforced by the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF), prosecuted at sign...
How France's Interests in Mozambique Obstruct Peace in the DRC A Critical Analysis of Emmanuel Macron's Interview with TV5 Monde, Africa Forward Summit, Nairobi, 12 May 2026 Published by The African Rights Campaign (ARC) | London, May 2026 1. Introduction This analysis is based on French President Emmanuel Macron's interview with TV5 Monde, conducted on 12 May 2026 during the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. In that interview, Macron was asked a direct question: given that Rwanda's support for the M23 armed group has been documented by United Nations experts, and given that the United States has imposed sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force and several of its senior officers, why have France and the European Union declined to do the same? Macron's response was unconvincing, dishonest and analytically incoherent. It revealed not a carefully calibrated position of principled neutrality, but the operational logic of a government that has c...
Dr Phil Clark was born in Sudan and is currently working at SOAS University of London. He is known to be biased lecturer and researcher about African issues, particularly the Rwandan genocide. With his poor judgement and analytical thinking, this man only talk about the results of events and forget the root causes. He is a staunch supporter of the criminal, dictator and killer Paul Kagame , the President of Rwanda. He is singing the song of the winner of the Rwandan war. He is in the same boat with Linda Melvern, a biased British freelancer who received a medal from the dictator Paul Kagame. "> "> Dr.Phil Clark "> Linda Melvern I am asking Dr Phil Clark one question: Dear Dr Phil Clark, What was the role of Paul Kagame and RPF in the Rwandan massacres and genocide in and outside Rwanda? Based...
ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATION Introduction: The Myth and the Man Behind the Myth There is a version of Paul Kagame that exists in the conference halls of Davos, in the pages of Western magazines, in private hotel meetings in London, Paris and Washington, and on the sleeves of European football shirts. In this version, Kagame is a visionary. A builder. A disciplined African moderniser. A leader who pulled a broken country from the ashes of genocide and turned it into what admirers often call the “Singapore of Africa”. In this version, Rwanda is clean, efficient, safe, investment-friendly and orderly. Kagame is presented as the African leader the West wants to believe in: controlled, polished, pro-market, security-focused and comfortable in elite Western spaces. Then there is the Rwanda that many Rwandans, exiles, journalists, opposition figures and human rights organisations describe. In this Rwanda, YouTubers and online commentators are jailed for what they say. Critics die in custo...
I nvestigation: Paying to Stay Poor: How Western PR Firms, Lobbyists, Sports Clubs and Media Outlets Profit from Rwanda’s Image Economy Introduction: An Ecosystem of Paid Influence Rwanda is often presented internationally as a model of discipline, security, investment promotion and post-genocide recovery. That image has been carefully built, repeatedly amplified and professionally protected. Behind it sits a costly international network of sports sponsorships, lobbying contracts, public relations firms, legal consultancy, political access, favourable media relationships and diplomatic narrative management. The moral problem is clear. Rwanda remains heavily dependent on foreign aid and external financing. According to World Bank-linked data, foreign aid received by Rwanda reached approximately 1.39 billion US dollars in 2023. UNDP’s 2025 Human Development Report gives Rwanda a Human Development Index value of 0.578 for 2023, placing it 159th out of 193 countries and territories. U...
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