African Great Lakes Observer

President Museveni of Uganda is planning another genocide after   planned and organised   the Rwandan genocide . Museveni's   threats against Machar are not helpful. With the support from the UK and USA   governments, Museveni heavily armed Kagame to fight the   peaceful   Rwanda in 1990-1994. The result of this was the genocide. After this   Museveni has been fighting in DR Congo where   he killed millions of Congolese people.   No-one can trust him. He could have used the same rhetoric about South Sudan to prevent genocide in Rwanda. Probably he regrets   his support to the war criminal and dictator Paul Kagame and this is why he is   trying to do something now   in South Sudan. But we all know that   he is a staunch supporter of     the   current South Sudan regime. Rwandan and Ugandan Military troops are already   fighting against Machar. By supporting one side of the conflicts, they are prepa...

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/73460 Interview with Marceline Nduwamungu on Victoire Ingabire's sentence to 15 years in prison.

http://m.voanews.com/a/1818165.html DRC to Send Peacekeeping Troops to CAR December 26, 2013 Last updated on: December 26, 2013 2:51 PM Peter Clottey Internally displaced children, who are escaping the violence, pose at Bangui's Saint Paul's Church December 17, 2013. Some European countries will send troops to support a French-African mission to restore order in Central African Republic, French Foreign The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) information minister says 850 peacekeeping troops from the national army, the FARDC, will be sent next week to neighboring Central African Republic (CAR) to help with efforts to stabilize the security situation there. Lambert Mende says the government in Kinshasa is providing assistance to about 50,000 CAR citizens who have so far crossed the border into the DRC to flee the unrest that has displaced tens of thousands. He says the administration has told its citizens the decision to send the troops to the CAR is based on a request by the Sout...

On Friday, 27 December 2013, 6:04, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <mulindwa@look.ca> wrote:   US and UK pursuing a 'massive land grab' in South Sudan Get short URL Published time: December 24, 2013 16:49 SPLA-N fighter stands with a mortar shell near Jebel Kwo village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan (Reuters/Goran Salva Kiir government in South Sudan is effectively "a terrorist government put in power by the West" to tap into country's vast resources, war correspondent Keith Harmon Snow, told RT. RT: How possible is another irrevocable split - this time of South Sudan? Or has that already happened in reality? Keith Harmon Snow: It is already happening in reality. The fighting since December 15 has led to the murder of about 5,000 people in the Juba area according to reports we are getting from South Sudan. Of course, none of this is in the international media at all; the internationa...

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2013/12/dr-congo-arrests-rebel-leader-accused-of-war-crimes DR Congo arrests rebel leader accused of war crimes December 24, 2013 by  AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Congolese people in Kiwanja on November 2, 2013/AFP GOMA, Dec 23 – The Congolese army on Monday arrested a rebel leader whose militia has been accused of committing war crimes in the east of the vast Democratic Republic of Congo, sources said. Kakule Muhima, head of a Mai Mai militia known by his nickname Shetani (Satan), was arrested in Kiwanja, a town in the volatile, resource rich province of North Kivu, Jean Claude Bambanze, civil society leader for the Rutshuru region where Kiwanja is located, said in a statement. Army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Amuli confirmed the arrest, telling AFP that Muhima would be brought before a military tribunal in the eastern DR Congo's main city Goma, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Kiwanja, "at the first opportunity". Bambanze said Muhi...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25502457 South Sudan sees 'mass ethnic killings' 24 December 2013  Last updated at 13:35 James Copnall: "The conflict is now spreading around the country" New evidence is emerging of alleged ethnic killings committed during more than a week of fighting in South Sudan. The violence follows a power struggle between President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and his Nuer ex-deputy Riek Machar. A reporter in the capital, Juba, quoted witnesses as saying more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Nuers, had been shot by security forces. The UN says it has discovered a mass grave in Bentiu in the oil-rich Unity State, containing about 75 bodies. "There are reportedly at least two other mass graves in Juba," UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said in a statement. A spokeswoman for the Geneva-based human rights office told the BBC the ethnicity of those killed in Bentiu was unclear - but there are reports they are ethnic Dinkas. Ravina Shamdasani sa...

Friday, 20 December 2013 12:12 Africa is often referred to as one big country, despite being a continent as big as China, India, the United States AND most of Europe put together. The continent is more than 30m sq. km, but this is not reflected correctly in standard Mercator maps. Europe, for instance, is the world's  second-smallest continent  by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres, with approximately 50 countries (of which 28 belong to the European Union). See larger image  here Africa, a mega-sized continent with 54 or 55 countries, depending on interpretation  (if we were to compare size in square  meters, the UK would end up as number 31 on the  list ) is all too often thought of as a humanitarian desert of disasters and conflicts, with famine, malnutrition and diseases on top of it all. However, good news is that reality actually is quite the opposite. Although journalism continues to portray a continent of unendi...

20 December 2013 While the UN continues to talk about the bloody war in Syria and the ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), failing to stop genocide in Rwanda 1994, and Srebrenica in 1995, is still hounting the World body, but the United Nations are considering new preventive strategy called “Rights up Front” to prevent possible further massive abuse of human rights, Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson told reporters on Thursday in New York. - Srebrenica and Rwanda’s experience “Unfortunately, we have seen tens of thousands of people killed since Srebrenica and in Rwanda. In several situations we have seen millions of people displaced because of atrocities or risks of mass atrocities since then,” Eliasson reminded UN reporters. He offered the basic bacground for the new UN preventive action initiative.   Eliasson announced a six-point plan with training a...

Full details of DFID’s support to Rwanda can be found in the Country Assistance Plan 2003-2006 and the Memorandum of Understanding. For copies of these, and for further information, go to www.dfid.gov.uk or contact Brendan Stanbury, DFID Rwanda (Tel: + 250 85771, b-stanbury@dfid.gov.uk). UK SUPPORT TO RWANDA Rwanda Overview • The challenge that confronted Rwanda in 1994 was truly extraordinary. Thirty-two years of state divisionism, eight years of economic collapse, four years of conflict and three months of savage genocide had left one million people dead, a collapsed state and economy, infrastructure destroyed and nearly three million refugees in exile. • Rwanda has made considerable progress since then - although the needs still remain acute. The country is at peace, the economy is stable and growing (real GDP growth averaged almost 8% per year from 1998 to 2002), and the incidence of poverty declined from around 70% in 1994 to 60% in 2002 (although statistics are ext...

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/letters/truly-hostile-environment/2009939.article Truly hostile environment 19 DECEMBER 2013 Phil Clark's recent article in  Times Higher Education  strongly implies that foreign scholars – like us – who claim that it is difficult to do careful field research in post-genocide Rwanda do not know how to do so properly (" The price of admission ", 28 November). He writes that those researchers who have fallen out with the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the country's ruling party, have exaggerated the intimidation and interference that they have experienced. Clark also implies that such scholars do not know how to constructively engage the RPF and government officials. We, especially those of us who have studied the country for decades, reject these suggestions of professional inadequacy and what we perceive to be ad hominem attacks against some in our midst. In setting out a false dichotomy between those who can no longer conduct r...