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Africa / Rwanda

Rwanda deserves to be condemned as much as Russia

Published by The Times (14th March, 2018) After a hard week working as a mental health nurse manager, Noble Marara was relaxing at home with his family when […]

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Africa / Aid / Rwanda

Why does Rwanda still get British aid?

Published by The Times (31st August, 2017) Diane Rwigara is a brave woman. Her industrialist father died in what she believes was a politically inspired car crash. Yet […]

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Africa / Aid / Rwanda

‘Donor darling’ despot falsifies poverty numbers and sends hitmen to Britain

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd July, 2017) Emmanuel Gasakure could have enjoyed a comfortable life as a cardiologist in France. But when his native Rwanda was […]

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Africa / Aid / Disability / Health / Policy / Rwanda / South Sudan / Technology

Print your own body parts

Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer & The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he was grabbed by a Sudanese guerrilla army and […]

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Africa / Aid / Arts / Books / Rwanda

How ‘Big Brother’ is destroying free speech in Rwanda

Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived one evening: ‘My life is in danger. I […]

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Africa / Rwanda / South Africa

Assassins linked to Kagame regime

Published by The Independent (30th August, 2014) Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa had only been in South Africa for a few months when, returning home from a shopping trip with […]

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Africa / Rwanda / South Africa

Kagame’s enemies have a strange habit of dying

Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then […]

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Africa / Congo / Kenya / Rwanda

When democracy is accused of blood on its hands

Published in The Independent (May 13th, 2013) When the new president of Kenya visited London last week for the summit on Somalia, he held a private meeting with our […]

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Africa / China / Politics / Rwanda / World

The man who turned amorality into an art form

Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a prestigious conference on philanthropy, he showed he had […]

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Africa / Congo / Rwanda

Gaza grabs the headlines as Congo once more descends into chaos

Published in The Observer (November 25th, 2012) Once again, the apparently insoluble struggle between Israel and Palestine has flared up before flickering into uneasy standoff. As usual, world […]

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Africa / Aid / Congo / Rwanda

Monster behind genocide and rape squads

Published in the Daily Mail (July 27th, 2011) Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the run – were finally caught by Rwandan army […]

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Africa / Aid / Rwanda

Stop the flow of cash to Rwanda’s despotic regime

Published in The Times (May 23rd, 2011) Somehow, we never seem to learn. This year, we have seen seismic uprisings in North Africa expose the shabby foundations of […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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