Africa

Protests in Burundi against Pierre Nkurunziza seeking third term

“We know that there are people who tell those lies in order to obtain special protection. I wanted to tell you that although these international NGOs operate in confidentiality we have the means to know everything you tell them. For public interest reasons we will convoke those people and ask them about their false statements. That’s why I ask all those who have lied to go back to those NGOs and change their statements, ” Rwandan Disaster Minister Seraphine Mukantabana  said on October 23, 2015, in a speech delivered to Burundian Refugees in camps inside Rwanda. She was threatening refugees after reports that Rwandan Security services were recruiting  Burundian refugees, including children,  funding, arming and training them with the purpose of launching military attacks back inside Burundi.  It is two of such attacks that led, over the week-end,  to 87 deaths, including 8 members of the Burundian security forces,  in the Capital Bujumbura, according to Burundian military spokesperson.

Bernard Makuza, General Paul Kagame's Cousin and Rwandan Senate President

As expected, the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame is ignoring the warnings from the United States Government and others democracies against changing the Rwandan constitution to allow himself to cling to power (see our article here).  Rwanda's Senate, mostly composed of Paul Kagame's cronies or stooges,  on Tuesday November 17, 2015 unanimously approved a draft constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term

RUD and RPR troops patrolling a military position in Eastern DRC

The military spokesperson of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) based Rwandan rebels accuse the Rwandan government of arming and reinforcing a brutal militia terrorizing civilians.
In a press release, Colonel Jean Michel Africa,  the military spokesperson of a coalition of Rwandan rebels, the Rally for Unity and Democracy (RUD-Urunana)  and  Rally of the Rwandan People (RPR - Inkeragutabara), is accusing a militia known as SOKI, of terrorizing innocent civilians in   North-Kivu province, Eastern DRC.