African Great Lakes Observer

Agaciro development Fund is a serious hurt for Rwandans and Foreign Investors As the Rwandan leadership is panicking over the international community halt to aid, the improvised collection of funds to make their regime keep running is becoming worrisome for nationals and foreign businesses working in Rwanda. The recent statistics of the contributors to the Agaciro Funds shows clearly that the real instigators of the current and worsening financial situation and the primary spoilers of the Rwandan wealth do not bother to put even a penny into that so-called salvation Funds. Face to the humiliation from the external donors, the military dictatorship imposed the Agaciro Funds to humiliate in their turn foreign companies that were initially rushed into the country and nowadays abandoned by their countries policies to pull out of Rwanda. Those companies are facing a dilemma to contribute as much as they can to please the Kigali regime for their own survival to stay in the cou...

    An Award-Winning Documentary On Rwanda Censored Off By Its Third http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/an-award-winning-documentary-on-rwanda-censored-off-by-its-third/ By Marie Madeleine Bicamumpaka Imagine an author who publishes a book of 240 pages. But once in the public, all booksellers agree to wipe out the content of the last 80 pages, so that any customer who buys it never knows what was in the latter part of the book. Yvan Patry, Canadian co-director of the documentary "Chronicle of a genocide foretold", died in 1999, after having received several awards for his cinematographic work.  Marie Magdalene Bicamumpaka, describes the story of this documentary, which was censured by those who promoted and continue to advance the 'victor' narrative of the Rwandan tragedy. The original  article  appeared initially in French on Musabyimana site. The following is my translation of the content. The censured part of the documentary ...

  http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/22/uk-congo-democratic-east-idUKBRE87L06N20120822 Insight - Ethnic, economic interests entangle Rwanda in Congo By Jonny Hogg   KIWANJA, Democratic Republic of Congo | Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:06am BST KIWANJA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Four years after dozens of his neighbours in the remote eastern Congolese village of Kiwanja were butchered by rebels, Olivier has a sense of a recurring nightmare. Insurgents once again stalk the village's abandoned streets and fearful residents crowd for safety at the shut gates of the nearby U.N. peacekeepers' base as gunfire shatters the silence and government troops retreat in chaos. As with a previous 2004-2009 rebellion, Congo's leaders, U.N. experts and regional analysts point to small but militarily powerful neighbour Rwanda as the driving force behind this latest insurgency to test Kinshasa's tenuous hold over the east. After wars in the 1990s, Rwanda withdre...

Rethinking the International Response to the Congo Conflict Posted: 23/08/2012 13:14 Follow   Congo ,   United Nations ,   Rwanda , Icc , m23-Rebels , UK News As violence continues after the latest rebellion in eastern Congo - which over the last three months has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced around 400,000 - it is necessary to reassess the international response to these events. The UN Group of Experts report in June, which accused Rwanda of supporting the mutiny of M23 rebels from the Congolese army, sparked international condemnation of the Rwandan government. Driven by the evidence in the report as well as fierce criticism by human rights groups and media commentators, the governments of the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden delayed or withdrew aid packages to Rwanda. While there is little doubt that Rwanda - not for the first time - has interfered dangerously in Congolese affairs, we need to cast a critical eye over both the UN re...

  http://www.inyenyerinews.org/amakuru-2/the-untold-stories-the-political-shocks-without-shock-absorbers-accelerated-the-death-of-meles-zenawi/ The Untold Stories: The political shocks without shock absorbers accelerated the death of Meles Zenawi August 22, 2012 By Rwema IT Webmaster 2 Comments One of the new breeds of African leader's comrade Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57. The legacy of the late Ethiopian Prime Minister will be split between criticism over his human rights record and recognition for being an ally of the West against what they call terrorism. While the cause of his death remains a mystery for many people within Ethiopia and outside, what is certain though is that he had not groomed a clear successor in line to take power. Whether the current Deputy Prime Minister who constitutionally is second in line, will be respected by the army and other close allies of the late Prime Minister remains a puzzle that political analysts and theorists ...

Rwanda: What  the dictator and war Criminal Paul Kagame needs to do to address the negative impacts of foreign aid cuts ? It is good news that foreign aid was cut by the major funders of Rwanda dictatorial  regime led by the  war criminal and dictator Paul Kagame. Rwanda foreign  aid benefits a small majority of Rwandan people mainly Tutsi and Hutu elites who  are  supporting  Kagame's regime. Foreign aid for Rwanda has been used by Kagame  to open new Embassies abroad, paying salaries for military personal fighting in Congo, construction of  new hotels and business centres in the capital, building a new airport  and purchasing new civil and military  aircrafts. Rwanda's aid cuts were overdue even without being caused caused by Kagames' support to ongoing fighting in DR Congo. While many public workers in the UK have lost their jobs due to economic downturn,  Kagame pay higher salaries to military and civil servants than any d...

by Adam Miller | University of Michigan F Posted in: News and Politics , Voices P Posted on: August 17, 2012 8  Adam Miller The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country comparable in size to the United States east of the Mississippi and a country of great beauty, nearly untouched rainforests, exotic animal species, and a good number of valuable minerals and other natural resources. And yet Congo is today one of the poorest, most violent, most chaotic places on Earth—without medicine, electricity, law, or order. Heartbreakingly, mass rape is rampant, pandemic, and a tactic of both government forces and militias that control large portions of the nation as a result of a prior brutal civil war and its continuing repercussions. As an Afro-American and African Studies minor at the University of Michigan, I turn to international news outlets—particularly Al Jazeera and the BBC—for the latest happening...

  http://www.inyenyerinews.org/amakuru-2/the-untold-stories-kagame-a-wounded-buffalo-will-the-icc-prosecute-a-man-who-stopped-genocide-in-rwanda/ Kagame a wounded Buffalo: Will the ICC Prosecute a Man who stopped Genocide in Rwanda? August 19, 2012 By Rwema IT Webmaster Leave a Comment The international criminal lawyer Christopher Black on behalf of the Rwandese and Congolese coalition presented a petition to the International criminal court based in the Hague requesting   Fatou Bensouda, the new Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, to investigate and indict Rwandan President Paul Kagame.   President Paul Kagame, is accused of  violations various arms embargo and sanctions within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is also accused of  helping the M23 so-called rebellion in Congo in violation of Security Council sanctions which has been responsible for gross human rights violations  in the DRC. As far as I know th...

http://www.afroamerica.net/AfricaGL/2012/08/16/un-group-of-experts-find-new-evidences-of-rwandan-invasion-of-drc/ UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo has found fresh evidences of Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Meanwhile, Rwandan operatives within ICGLR sub-committee continue to assert that the problem in the DRC and the region is caused by the Rwandan rebels from three groups: Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), Rally for Unity and Democracy (RUD-Urunana) and General Kayumba and Colonel Karegeya's troops. Fresh Graves and Burial Sites of RDF Soldiers Killed in DRC According to sources from the Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF),  the UN Group of Experts acted on a tip from Rwandan Government insiders and satellite images provided by unnamed services. The satellite images show fresh graves and burial sites of tens of troops in the Rwandan military cemetery of Kanombe. The insiders alleged that the di...