Word: kigali
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...Africa to tackle overpopulation. Rwandan coffee is now some of the most sought after in the world and its eco-tourism industry is booming, but the effects of the country's bloody recent past linger on. Kagame, 49, met Africa bureau chief Alex Perry at his offices in Kigali...
...holocaust colors everything that follows, alters the essence of a nation. And it fosters a lasting mystery - an incomprehension over how man could behave so inhumanly to man. At his offices in Kigali, President Paul Kagame says: "Hutu fathers killed their own children because some of them resembled their wives, who were Tutsi. How do you explain that?" Nations that haven't just peered into the abyss, but lived in it, have a tight grasp on the price of failure. Those that survive are duty-bound to do everything to avoid a repeat. So when Columbia University public health...
...some of them wrong. Amnesty International says several thousand detainees are being held in long-term detention without trial. Human Rights Watch says Kagame has "equated 'genocidal ideology' with dissent from government policy." Paul Rusesabagina, the central character in the film Hotel Rwanda - in which he shelters Tutsis in Kigali's Mille Collines Hotel - accuses Kagame, a Tutsi, of pursuing vengeance. "Everything has been taken over by the Tutsi. The Hutu ... are intimidated." And it was two Rwandan army invasions in the late 1990s into the Democratic Republic of Congo, in pursuit of fugitive Rwandan génocidaires, that sparked...
...consensus among the diplomatic community in Kigali is that Kagame is a benevolent dictator. One senior Western official says that, contrary to predictions that Kagame would follow the African pattern of guerrilla leaders turning corrupt autocrat, he is devolving power and enforcing accountability. Last year, he gutted the central bureaucracies and handed many powers to local mayors, who now report every three months to the President. "It's democracy with constraints," says the diplomat. "You're free to criticize, but you can't bring up the ethnic question, or you'll end up in jail." Kagame points out that...
...made us think that institutions set up to fix Europe after World War II would do well at African poverty in the 21st century?" In Nyamata, Jacqueline Nyiramayonde, 42, describes her journey across the country in 1994, as she fled the genocide with her children. She was living in Kigali when the killing started, then spent a week with her boy and girl hiding behind a cupboard in a neighbor's house. When the killing reached the street outside, the neighbor took her and the children to a military camp. The génocidaires showed up there asking for them...