Jacques Pauw The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is hunting down Rwandan death squads who have been dispatched to South Africa to assassinate an exiled general who is allegedly plotting the overthrow of the regime of President Paul Kagame. City Press has learnt that the NIA has over the past year thwarted several attempts by Rwandan… Read More »

Once the West’s favoured African son and embraced by the likes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has become a tarnished African hero, writes Jacques Pauw When the 54-year-old bespectacled and rake-thin rebel leader marched into Kigali in 1994, his country was laid to waste by Africa’s worst modern-day horror. Kagame… Read More »

Human rights groups have launched legal action seeking the cancellation of Rwandan general Kayumba Naymwasa refugee status in South Africa, calling him a fugitive and a suspected war criminal, reports Jacques Pauw. The Consortium for Refugees and Migrant Rights (CoRMSA) and the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) say the Refugees Act states that those accused… Read More »