Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
And then, there's Rwanda and France…
From today’s New Times, Rwanda’s English-language daily: the Rwandan government is going to indict French officials named in the Mucyo Report, an investigation of the French role in the genocide. The report does not give a flattering picture of France (though my French is too bad to understand the whole 300 pages or so). But [...]
Rwanda and Germany face off
Germany yesterday arrested a top Rwandan government official, and Rwanda is outraged. Rose Kabuye, a member of Parliament, was arrested while traveling through Frankfurt. But it’s not the Germans who want her; it’s the French, who two years ago indicted 9 advisers to Paul Kagame for conspiring to shoot down the plane of Rwanda’s previous [...]
Of beauty queens and waterfalls
This was meant to be a post a few days ago, but I accidentally put it up as a page. I blame Congo. Two new stories to point out, just in case you feel the need to read them… Here’s one about Rwanda’s biggest beauty pageant, which I also blogged about: From Noses to Hips, [...]
Advertising students, unite for Darfur: It needs a new image
I’m surprised to find this BBC Viewpoint by Alex de Waal, who’s been one of those obscure-academics-turned-heroes-by-college-kids because of his work on Darfur. He’s an area expert on Darfur, wrote a key book about famine there in the 1980s… He’s always been a guy of nuance and complication, but in this piece, he argues against [...]
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