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View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund

African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

rwanda redux

Premium badgePaul Kagame: ‘The problem is not between me and Tshisekedi’ The Rwandan president answers questions on the tensions with DRC, his probable fourth term, the recent spate of coups, and his dissatisfaction with th...
Why are Ugandans of Banyarandan extraction having a hard time getting passports? (Twitter)

stateless citizens

Premium badgeNo place to call home for the Banyarwanda of Uganda Uganda’s constitution recognises Banyarwanda as an official tribe, but people who take that identity face stringent scrutiny when getting IDs.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, 26 June 2021. (AFP/Rijasolo)

tainted friends

Premium badgeMadagascar: Rajoelina’s chief of staff charged with bribery Romy Voos Andrianarisoa and her business associate Philippe Tabuteau face up to 10 years in prison over soliciting bribes for a Gemfields contract.

Rwanda top stories

View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

rwanda redux

Premium badgePaul Kagame: ‘The problem is not between me and Tshisekedi’ The Rwandan president answers questions on the tensions with DRC, his probable fourth term, the recent spate of coups, and his dissatisfaction with th...
Why are Ugandans of Banyarandan extraction having a hard time getting passports? (Twitter)

stateless citizens

Premium badgeNo place to call home for the Banyarwanda of Uganda Uganda’s constitution recognises Banyarwanda as an official tribe, but people who take that identity face stringent scrutiny when getting IDs.

Rwanda top stories

View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

rwanda redux

Premium badgePaul Kagame: ‘The problem is not between me and Tshisekedi’ The Rwandan president answers questions on the tensions with DRC, his probable fourth term, the recent spate of coups, and his dissatisfaction with th...
Why are Ugandans of Banyarandan extraction having a hard time getting passports? (Twitter)

stateless citizens

Premium badgeNo place to call home for the Banyarwanda of Uganda Uganda’s constitution recognises Banyarwanda as an official tribe, but people who take that identity face stringent scrutiny when getting IDs.

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Felicien Kabuga’s ‘Wanted’ posters as shown during a 2002 press conference by Pierre-Richard Prosper, then US Ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. (REUTERS/George Mulala)

justice lost

Premium badgeRwanda genocide: Kabuga’s trial abandoned due to health issues After evading capture for 23 years, Felicien Kabuga was set to face trial before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
Mushikiwabo OIF Secretary General Louise Mushikiwabo (©JOEL SAGET/AFP)

MIND GAMES

Premium badgeRwanda-DRC tension: Francophonie boss skips Kinshasa games Former Rwandan foreign minister turned Francophonie chief Louise Mushikiwabo is skipping this week’s Kinshasa games amid tension with DRC.
© Jean-Pierre Bemba, the defence minister appointed in March, in North Kivu on 12 June 2023. (DRC Ministry of Defence)

Mercenaries on a mission

Premium badgeIs Félix Tshisekedi privatising the Eastern DRC war against M23? Two private military companies have been operating alongside the Congolese army in the troubled North Kivu Province for over a year.
Bboxx CEO Mansoor Hamayun meets then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Kigali in June 2022. Photo supplied.

new venture

Premium badgeBboxx likely to announce DRC, West Africa e-mobility expansion within months Bboxx plans to announce expansion of its electric-mobility business in the next two or three months, CEO Mansoor Hamayun says
Moussa Faki Mahamat

future ambitions

Premium badgeMoussa Faki Mahamat: ‘Coup leaders should not stand for election’ In an exclusive interview, the Chair of the African Union Commission stands firm against regimes that come to power by force, which happens to include...

'ethnic renegade'

Rwanda’s Beata Mairesse: ‘All Your Children, Scattered’ In 2019, 25 years after the Rwandan genocide, Franco-Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, a survivor, published her first novel, ‘Tous tes enfants ...