The worst article on Rwanda and DR Congo you will read all year »

The worst article on Rwanda and DR Congo you will read all year

It wasn’t just me who read David Smith’s “Letter from Africa” in The Guardian open mouthed this morning. Fortunately for us, my friend Christopher Vourlias takes the 1,000 word corpse into the operating theatre and dissects it into oblivion. The article is an attempt at a “colour” piece about a trip from Kigali to Goma [...]

Rwanda cuts fees for foreign journalists »

Rwanda cuts fees for foreign journalists

It was only the other day that a group of BBC journalists complianed to me about the extortionate fees they had to pay to get accreditation to work in Rwanda for just 3 or 4 days. They had to cough up US$200 per person and the customary long wait,
To work as a journalist in Rwanda [...]

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