The Economist

Africa’s cynical master of power politics

For the moment there is not much to see in Bugesera, a district replete with verdant bush 45km south of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. But it is the site of what Paul Kagame, the president of the central ...
The New York Times

With Rivals Restricted, Kagame Looks Set for Another Term in Rwanda

The Central African nation is voting on a potential fourth term for President Paul Kagame. Opposition figures say they have been threatened and arbitrarily detained. By Abdi Latif Dahir Abdi Latif ...
The Economist

Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

Back in the 1990s Paul Kagame grabbed global attention as the leader of a rebel group that halted the Rwandan genocide, the worst mass atrocity of the past four decades. In the 2000s and 2010s he ...