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Rwanda – descent into tyranny?

  • 26 Jun 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Rwandan spy chief General Karenzi granted bail

    Rwanda’s intelligence chief has been granted bail by a London court – after he refused consent to his extradition to Spain over alleged war crimes.

  • 22 Jun 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    UK arrests one of Rwanda’s most senior military officers

    The detention of General Emmanuel Karake Karenzi will strain relationships between Rwanda and the UK. He is expected to go before a court on Thursday.

  • 18 Mar 2013

    Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda hands himself in

    Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, known as “The Terminator”, hands himself into the US Embassy in the Rwandan capital.

  • 30 Nov 2012

    Decision to stop Rwanda aid ‘marks start of new era’

    The halting of aid to Rwanda is “Britain throwing down the gauntlet”, writes Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller who investigated alleged military interference in Congo for Dispatches on Monday.

  • 30 Nov 2012

    UK halts £21m Rwanda aid over DR Congo claims

    Britain is withholding £21m of aid to Rwanda amid concerns that the state is supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it was announced today.

  • 26 Nov 2012

    Lord Lawson: ‘Britain is funding Africa’s next tyrant’

    Former chancellor Lord Lawson condemns the Conservative-led coalition’s rising aid payments to Rwanda, a country which he says is run by “an unscrupulous monster”, writes Jonathan Miller.

  • 25 Nov 2012

    Rwanda timeline: Descent into tyranny

    Channel 4 News plots the chronology of major incidents in Rwanda since 2010. Many other attacks on democratic freedoms and threats against individuals have taken place.

  • 25 Nov 2012

    Rwanda: Where has your aid money gone?

    Exclusive: A former ally of the Rwandan president warns that British aid is bankrolling an unaccountable, repressive regime accused of war crimes in neighbouring Congo, writes Jonathan Miller.

  • 22 Nov 2012
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Suddenly, the British government changes policy on Rwanda

    The Foreign Office had been reluctant to blame President Kagame’s government for the surge in fighting in the east of the DR Congo. That changed when it emerged Rwanda was behind the M23 rebel group which seized Goma.

  • 21 Nov 2012

    UN report links Rwanda to Congo rebel group M23

    A report from the UN links Rwanda’s defence minister James Kabarebe with the rebel group which has been taking over towns and cities in the mineral-rich east of Congo.

  • 20 Nov 2012

    Congo rebels claim control of city as Rwanda tensions rise

    Rebels widely believed to be backed by Rwanda claim control of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • 13 Aug 2012

    Craving for mineral wealth fuels support for Bosco

    A UN report alleges direct Rwandan assistance to Bosco Ntaganda’s rebels, setting them up, reinforcing them, arming, supplying and funding them and recruiting for them – all in violation of UN sanctions.

  • 2 Apr 2012

    The ‘Terminator’ and why Congo is still not at peace

    Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports on Bosco Ntaganda, the accused war criminal from Congo who is “just as dangerous as Joseph Kony”.

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