HOPES OF ‘AFRICA RISING’ BESET BY GLOBAL DOWNTURNS
Dec. 28 (GIN) –This was the year African economies were poised to rise and invest some of their new-found capital in jobs and infrastructure. But the triple threat…
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BURUNDI: US SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARS TESTIMONY
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, told the Senators that she had read the UNHCR reports on Rwandan government conscription of Burundian refugees for…
OBAMA SINGLES OUT BURUNDI, AMIDST AFRICAN PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION STRUGGLES
US President Barack Obama and Burundian President Pierre NkurunzizaPresidential succession struggles continue in many nations on the African continent, including the vastly resource rich Democratic Republic of Congo…
The Beginning of the End for Kagame?
Paul Kagame If the U.K. is not safe for a war criminal, then where in the West is? On June 22, 2015, it was reported that the director-general…
RWANDA: OPPOSITION APPLAUDS US DECISION NOT TO SUPPORT THIRD TERM FOR KAGAME
On 6.04.2015, Rodney D. Ford, spokesman for the US State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, told this reporter that the US will support neither a Rwandan constitutional amendment…
Rice and Museveni shake hands on crimes in Central Africa
During the first week of May, President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC) Advisor Susan Rice met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in New York City. NSC spokesperson Bernadette…
Angolan Dictator Dos Santos: Free Rafael Marques, Anti-Corruption Reporter Who Exposed “Blood Diamonds”
Dos Santos -- in power for 36 years now The Angolan regime of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is trying to silence Rafael Marques de Morais, perhaps Africa's…
Dr. Kiyingi, Ugandan Expatriate Cardiologist Denies Links to Muslims’ Killing Spree
Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi Australia-based cardiologist, Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi, from Uganda, said he has not involved in or sponsoring the numerous murders of Muslim clerics in the East African…
In support of “Rwanda’s Untold Story” and the BBC
A call for truth and justice in the African Great Lakes Region (Published here for the signatories by Ann Garrison and the Black Star News.) On Oct. 1,…
Loretta Lynch’s Shame: International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR)
News outlets have been praising Loretta Lynch's credentials as a former Special Counsel to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR); Bloomberg News heralded the…