Kagame and his entourage see the ethnic Hutus in the country and beyond as people that need to be checked, and the Tutsi as people that need to be mobilised to be vigilant and rally behind his regime for protection.
Several countries urged Rwanda to take measures to improve the human rights situation in places of detention and allow visits by independent local and international bodies.
Rwandans in the country generally read in the international press about their country being at war. It is hard to know whether or not they are in support of Kagame’s war enterprise.
At least 15 former regime allies-turned-dissidents living in exile were branded as either terrorists or terrorist financiers. Their assets were frozen and seized with immediate effects.
Criminalisation of dissent has given rise to blind obedience and ignorance to become policy. Intellectuals who cannot toe the line are killed or jailed. Others run away, resulting in considerable brain drain.
In tonnes of second hand goods, such as worn garments, used electronics, batteries and pre-owned cars, that are sold to Africa each year largely from Europe hides an environmental burden weighing down the health of millions.
The system managing international climate finance is still linked with opaqueness climate justice campaigners say limit the flow of the funds to the grassroots. COURTESY PHOTO
Mozambique is the latest casualty reeling from effects of cyclone Chido. Heavy rainfall affected roughly 11 million people, including 2,500 fatalities and 4 million displacements in 27 countries.
While tech companies are embracing technical talents from the African continent or considering the global majority countries as a space where they could hire talents, it hasn’t become so mainstream.