Three hours in Kigali »
Some 26 years after Mitterand, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Kigali today for a total of around three hours. The newly appointed French Ambassador to Rwanda, Laurent Contini, had already stolen much of Sarko’s thunder by announcing the big news earlier in the day; the French school in Kigali is set to re-open in September [...]
Rwanda stamping back to 1970 »
Flickr user Footysphere takes a great look back at some postage stamps apparently issued by Rwanda during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. I say “apparently” as, according to stamp spotters on the Internet, there are a lot of fake vintage stamps produced around the world and Rwanda has fallen victim on occasion. If you’re [...]
On the tantalite trail with the knicker bomber »
The Liverpool Echo uses CCTV camera footage to trace the 4350 mile journey of “disgruntled Rwandan businessman” Claude Rubagire as he travelled from Burundi to a factory in Liverpool in March, 2009. The businessman came armed with possibly the world’s most ingenious improvised (non) explosive device – the panty bomb.
For a year Rubagire had tried, [...]
Victoire Ingabire (does not) seek refuge at UK High Commission »
This story appears to be a hoax. I’m told Ingabire had a meeting at the UK High Commission and then went home. I can hardly wait until the presidential race starts for real. Just imagine the jolly japes…
According to her party’s Facebook page (basically a feed of press releases), the 2010 Rwanda presidential election hopeful, [...]
Returning to Rwanda after 16 years »
In the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, an estimated 2 million Hutus fled across the border to DR Congo. Nearly 16 years later, some of these Rwandans are coming home under a reconciliation and repatriation programme sponsored by the United Nations and the Rwanda government. Sorious Samura reports on the returnees for Al Jazeers’a [...]
