Wake up Sleeping Africa and Soar to Greater Heights
Wake up Sleeping Africa and Soar to Greater Heights Rwandan President Paul Kagame remarks in the first ever virtual summit for the Africa Green Revolution Forum #AGRF2020 which brought together thousands of virtual guests from around the Globe. Africa must begin to produce enough and feed herself. “It’s like an aircraft on the runway, it has to fly. Our […]
Augustine Bizmana, fugitive wanted by ICC for his role in Genocide and former Rwandese defence minister, died 20 years ago
He is believed to have died around August 2000, “based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana’s remains in a grave site in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the Congo,” the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) said in a statement. About 800,000 people, mainly members of the Tutsi ethnic group but also moderate Hutus, were […]
Mobutu Sese Seko, the best definition of kleptocracy, nepotism and corruption of the highest order
Mobutu Sese Seko was born Joseph Désiré Mobutu on 14 October 1930. Mobutu was supported by Belgian government and USA to deposed the democratically elected government of nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Under the orders of Belgian and US, Mobutu installed the government that arranged for […]
Félicien Kabuga most wanted fugitive in relation to Rwandan genocide arrested
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice ministry said. The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and had a $5 million U.S. bounty on […]
Bosco Ntaganda, the notorious nicknamed ‘terminator,’ was the M23 warlord
When it come to post colonial Africa, it hasn’t been easy for Africans living in mineral rich regions, as powerful elites want to compete with all available means to access the wealth including at the cost of human lives. The funding of rebels is one example to protect the ‘rights’ of multinational firms in a […]
Diagne Mbaye, Senegalese soldier who died to save thousands lives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide
In 1994, a plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, the then Rwandese president and Ciprien Ntaryamira, president of Burundi was shot down close to the airport in Kigali Rwanda. The assassinations of these presidents raised the already worse tensions between the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi. The chain of reactions followed thereafter. In a span of […]
NO PEACE NO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT!
By Patrick James To work at any form of sustainable development without peace in a society is like building a house without the foundation. Peace is the solid pillar upon which the building blocks of sustainable development are erected. Sometime I here people talking, planning or wishing for sustainable development in a destabilised, disorganised environment […]
QATAR AIRWAYS TO TAKE 60% STAKE IN NEW RWANDAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
The board said a first phase of construction would provide facilities for 7 million passengers a year in the Bugesera district, about 25 km south east of the capital Kigali Privatisation is the major causative of inequality in today’s world. In recent waves of protests around the world, people are resisting the world of […]
While France ways of looting Africa is well known to most, UK ways of looting Africa is more subtle
United Kingdom is the fifth largest economy in the world. It’s a miracle for a small island with little or no natural resources to command that position in global economic power. Former French President Jacques Chirac once said if it weren’t for Africa, France would slide to third world countries. Matteo Salvini […]
Germans were paid to use electricity, in Africa the same is scarce to millions of people and interrupted to those who can access
People in Germany were essentially got paid to use electricity. Electricity prices in the country went negative for many customers-as in below zero for some days in 2017. Germany has invested over $200 billion in renewable power over the last few decades, that is wind and solar. During weekends when the major factories are closed […]