Rwanda has accused senior French officials, including the country’s former president and prime minister, of being involved in its 1994 genocide.
“French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis,” the report said. “French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women.”
The report published by President Paul Kagame’s government [...]

A bi-partisan group including two former U.S. Senators and the wife of Republican hopeful John McCain are in Rwanda to witness some of the successful development projects taking place there.

“We really want to showcase this success story so that we can energize the American people and people in high levels of government to understand [...]

Paul Kagame talks about his vision for Rwanda and the role of small businesses and entrepreneurship in national development, and his personal path from military strategist to become Africa’s leading statesman.

Featuring an interview with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, this film illustrates how ICT serves as a cross-cutting enabler in helping Rwanda to achieve the 6 Pillars of its Vision 2020, and how the World Bank’s eRwanda project is contributing to the process.

Karol Boudreaux: State Power, Entrepreneurship, and Coffee: The Rwandan Experience.
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Abstract
In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Paul Kagame’s new government embarked upon a revolutionary restructuring of the economy. It lifted tight controls on the production, sale, and distribution of a variety of goods, liberalized many sectors of the economy, and gave people [...]

President Bush has less than 12 months to go in his presidency, and not unlike other heads of state before him, decides at the last hour that one final hurray in Africa is the medicine that will remedy all the mistakes made along the way.

“Our seemingly voluntary decision to invite and to entertain a hated war criminal for four days in our beautiful land will probably go down in history as marking the darkest moment in our political history so far” writes Hamza Mustafa Njozi from Tanzania.
And now, Kwame Nkrumah’s worst fears have come to pass. Tanzania, a former [...]