African Great Lakes Observer

http://www.tanzaniangovernment.blogspot.de/2013/05/rwandas-reaction-to-president-kikwetes_8702.html?m=1 Friday, 31 May 2013 Rwanda's reaction to President Kikwete's statement shocking On 26 May 2013 in Addis Ababa  the  UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, convened   the  first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and Region . It was at this important meeting where  the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete  made  what many  level headed commentators have  referred to as  candid and  commonsensical  remarks about the protracted conflicts in the Great Lakes Region. President Kikwete  -  a seasoned and consummate diplomat who has helped broker  many  peace deals in Africa  -  remarked  that it was high time Rw...

http://www.afjn.org/component/content/article/1163-european-union-challenges-rwandan-heavy-handed-leadership.html European Union challenges Rwandan heavy handed leadership   Posted on May 29, 2013 Although Rwandan President Paul Kagame has powerful friends like Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, Bill Clinton, former US President, and Rick Warren, a American evangelical Christian Pastor, just to name a few, who believe in and support Kagame's constitutional dictatorial regime, his victims have powerful friends who believe in democracy and freedom as the basis for lasting peace and prosperity in Rwanda. The European Union (EU) is the latest body outside Rwanda to challenge the man on his heavy handed leadership.  In a resolution which only focuses on the case of the opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who was arrested on  October 14, 2010 and has been in jail ever since, the European Union cracks open the door for the world to see just a very small aspect of what K...

http://www.afjn.org/focus-campaigns/other/other-continental-issues/80-democracy-and-governance/1167--the-economic-and-development-problem-of-africa-a-problem-of-governance.html The Economic and Development Problem of Africa: A Problem of Governance   By  Aniedi Okure, OP – Executive Director, AFJN. Paper presented  on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network ( AEFJN), Brussels April 22-25 A close examination reveals that the problem has to do mainly with governance: the common good, resource distribution, citizens' participation, transparency & accountability and economic justice. To address the economic problems, first you must tackle the systemic problems inherent in governance in Africa.  Read the full document here

http://www.rud-urunana.org/documentation/NDC-CND-PP-Comm-29May201300.pdf CND-NDC Congrès National pour la Démocratie National Democratic Congress Tel: 001-201-794-6542 / 001-506-461-3919 Email: urunana@optonline.net url: www.rud-urunana.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P RESS R ELEASE PPN O .01/M AY /13 T HE R ECENT S TATEMENTS OF THE T ANZANIAN P RESIDENT U SHER H OPE AND A N EW E RA IN THE E NTIRE G REAT L AKES R EGION While the entire African continent was celebrating the OAU/AU 50th Anniversary, H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania enounced a clear vision on how the seemingly intractable problems of the Africa Great Lakes Region could be and shall be approached in order enjoy an era of everlasting peace in the region. In his address, he clearly indicated and categorically stated that the enduring problems o...

" He [President Kikwete] either has a short memory or he deliberately decided to ignore the most recent horrors of genocide victims whose remains trekked unforgettable routes through his river Kagera up to the their current resting place where over ten thousand souls are laid to rest in Kansesero and Lambu on the shores of lake Victoria. May God bless the Ugandan citizens, who unlike Kikwete, offered their humane hearts and resources to give those remains a honorable burial place", The Association of Genocide Student Survivors and Alumni (AERG/GEARG      For your info....   Attached is fax from UNHCR about RPA killings of Hutu refugees in Rusomo. Also please read: http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.com/2009/05/rwandan-genocide-bodies-that-were.html The Rwandan Genocide: The Bodies That Were Floating In The Kagera River Were Victims Of The RPA By Radio Katwe " la kweli nitakwambia " Kampala October 10, 2007 A reader is questioning our story on the late Col...

  http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/rwandas-incongruous-response-to-tanzanian-president-jakaya-kikwete-proposal-for-a-political-solution-to-the-congo-crisis/ Rwanda's incongruous response to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete proposal for a political solution to the Congo crisis Posted on   May 30, 2013   |   Leave a comment Congolese protesters on November 28th, 2012 in front of the Rwandan High Commission in London – UK. Professor Charles Kambanda The Addis Ababa Peace Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo signed in February of this year highlighted that the UN intervention brigade meant to take on all armed groups in DRC must be backed by a politically sustainable strategy. At the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity, celebrated in Addis Ababa, the Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete underscored the necessity of talks between th...

  http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/ RWANDA : POLITICAL OPPOSITION WELCOMES TANZANIA PRESIDENT J. KIKWETE'S WISE AND HISTORIC ADVICE FOR LASTING PEACE MAY 31, 2013    PRESS RELEASE. Date : 31 st  May 2013. In Addis Ababa, on 26 th  May, 2013, in a speech before the African Union, at the first meeting of the regional oversight mechanism of the peace, security and cooperation framework for the DRC and the region, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE, President of the United Republic of Tanzania advised that comprehensive and lasting peace will be realised at the negotiating table and that time has come to reach out to FDLR, ADF and other negative forces with the view to ending the circle of violence. The President of Tanzania reiterated that supporting a peace deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo, necessitated a global peace deal that would include negotiating with the rebel groups. "I am of the view that the enlargemen...

  http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/rwanda-le-procureur-ne-sait-pas-ou-est-detenu-le-secretaire-general-des-fdu-inkingi/#more-2785 Rwanda: The prosecutor seems to ignore where the Interim Secretary-General of FDU-Inkingi is detained! MAY 27, 2013    Kigali , May 27, 2013.   On Monday, May 27, 2013, Mr. Sylvain Sibomana, the Interim Secretary-General of FDU-Inkingi, and Dominique Shyirambere, were supposed to appear before the High Court of Kigali. The hearing did not take place due to the absence of all of the defendants. As a reminder,  Mr. Sylvain Sibomana  is detained in Muhanga Prison while Dominique Shyirambere is held in Remera prison.   The court was meant to hear both parties the plaintiffs and the defendants, on the extension of the provisional detention of 30 days which expired before the appeal hearing session was held. In his ruling, the judge of Kabuga Intermediary Court had ordered that the a...

"A democratic government is urgently needed in Kigali. In my opinion, it is obvious that a democratically elected government in Kigali would not need to sponsor armed groups in the provinces of North and South Kivu. In addition, such a democratically elected government in Kigali would refuse to offer back-up bases to any Congolese armed groups, including the one belonging to the Tutsi rebel Laurent Nkundabatware, whose rebellions would shortly die off by themselves. Concerning the Rwandan armed groups, including the FDLR combatants, a democratically elected government in Kigali would not be afraid to directly discuss with them. Direct talks between these combatants and the democratically elected Rwandan government would set up new relationships under which the armed struggle would be meaningless. These armed groups would not have any reason to refuse to face justice in Rwanda, should some of their combatants have to respond for their acts, just as any other Rwandan in similar s...