Celebrating the third anniversary of the Rwanda Peoples Party

We once again celebrate the Third Anniversary of the founding of our party, the Rwanda Peoples Party (RPP). This has been a tumultuous three years during which time we have consolidated our political role as a vanguard for democratic change and transformation in our country. We have paid particular attention to four guiding principles of our party which are: Carry out the building and consolidation of      our party organs inside Rwanda and abroad. This has included safe      recruitment of party members in both the urban centres and rural areas and      providing them with the necessary political education to enable them more      effectively carry out party tasks as … Continue reading

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African nations’ ulterior motive to joining UN intervention force

In March, the United Nations approved a so-called “intervention brigade,” the first of its kind, to carry out offensives against militant groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo‘s conflict-ridden eastern regions. Now the brigade has been formally organized, and as Congo analyst Jason Stearns explains, its impact is likely to be felt across the continent. The intervention brigade is on its way, and it has inspired Cassandras and Pollyannas alike. Most of the talk has focused on the military efficacy of the brigade, which will consist of 3,069 troops from southern African countries and will be led by a Tanzanian general. This focus is not surprising, given the robust mandate … Continue reading

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RPP letter on DRC Addis Ababa Accord

                            Sweden, Malmo, 22 Feb 2013 Ref: Ref: RPP-OC3/DRC-M23/F1023/13-F22/JVK/RG-AU-UN/F24/AC President Barack OBAMA White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500, USA H.E Prime Minister David CAMERON 10 Downing Street London, SW1A 2AA UK. Ref:  DRC Addis Ababa Peace Accord Your Excellences  Rwanda People’s Party has noted with great concern the signing of a peace agreement between regional governments that include DRC, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique facilitated by African Union and the United Nations aimed at bringing sanity to this tortured country in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24/02/2013.  However, our Party has very grave concerns about the success of the imposed peace accord and the … Continue reading

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Revealed: Why Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda

We once again go deep into Dr Arnold Spero Bisase’s book Guardian Angel Volume One: The Beginning to find out what actually made former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to expel Asian British passport holders from Uganda. The story, if true, goes like this, and I knew the   narrator and his family well as they were my friends and patients at my Practice in Kampala. He told me that Idi Amin was once invited to an Asian function in 1972. He and many dignitaries, some local and some international, attended this rather lavish occasion; our Asian friends can really lay it on when they have someone eminent to impress, like The … Continue reading

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How France and Soros are funding regime change in Africa

By David Nyekorach- Matsanga The African Union (AU) 20th Heads state summit ended on 28th January 2013 with no solution to the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The failure by the AU to pinpoint those western countries that are destabilizing this continent is a shame for the organization under the leadership of Dr. Nkosazana Zuma whom we had hoped would change things drastically after the departure of Dr Jean Ping. Again the AU has shown that a toothless organization could be dictated to by the likes of France and the USA on matters that must be solved by Africans themselves. The DRC crisis lies at the belly of … Continue reading

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Enter Idi Amin and the beginning of the massacre of the Acholi

We continue the serialisation of Dr Arnold Spero Bisase’s book Guardian Angel Volume One; The beginning. The author narrates how the coming to power of Idi Amin escalated the Tutsi Dynasty Plan for the governance of the Great Lakes Region. He writes about the many unexplained murders that took place shortly after Idi Amin took over power in 1971 In January 1971, the hate machine faltered. Assassins turned against their master, although history may someday reveal some startling twist to this episode, especially the murder of Brigadier Okoya and his wife (please believe that authors like David Martin either knew very little about the true activities of FRONASA or like … Continue reading

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How Washington helped foster the Islamist uprising in Mali

French fighter jets take to the skies for Mission Mali where they’ve halted the advent of Islamist forces.

As the French-led military operation continues, Jeremy Keenan reveals how the US and Algeria have been sponsoring terror in the Sahara.

On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area of the Sahara bigger than France. Known as Azawad by local Tuareg people, northern Mali has been under the control of Islamist extremists following a Tuareg rebellion at the beginning of the year. For several months, the international media have been referring to northern Mali as ‘Africa’s Afghanistan’, with calls for international military intervention becoming inexorable.

While the media have provided abundant descriptive coverage of the course of events and atrocities committed in Azawad since the outbreak in January of what was ostensibly just another Tuareg rebellion, some pretty basic questions have not been addressed. No journalist has asked, or at least answered satisfactorily, how this latest Tuareg rebellion was hijacked, almost as soon as it started, by a few hundred Islamist extremists. In short, the world’s media have failed to explain the situation in Azawad. That is because the real story of what has been going on there borders on the incredible, taking us deep into the murky reaches of Western intelligence and its hook-up with Algeria’s secret service.

Azawad’s current nightmare is generally explained as the unintended outcome of the overthrow of Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi. That is true in so far as his downfall precipitated the return to the Sahel (Niger and Mali) of thousands of angry, disillusioned and well-armed Tuareg fighters who had gone to seek their metaphorical fortunes by serving the Gaddafi regime. But this was merely the last straw in a decade of increasing exploitation, repression and marginalization that has underpinned an ongoing cycle of Tuareg protest, unrest and rebellion. In that respect, Libya was the catalyst for the Azawad rebellion, not its underlying cause. Rather, the catastrophe now being played out in Mali is the inevitable outcome of the way in which the Global War On Terror has been inserted into the Sahara-Sahel by the US, in concert with Algerian intelligence operatives, since 2002.

When Abdelaziz Bouteflika took over as Algeria’s President in 1999, the country was faced with two major problems. One was its standing in the world. The role of the army and the DRS (the Algerian intelligence service) in the ‘Dirty War’ had made Algeria a pariah state. The other was that the army, the core institution of the state, was lacking modern high-tech weaponry as a result of international sanctions and arms embargoes.

The solution to both these problems lay in Washington. During the Clinton era, relations between the US and Algeria had fallen to a particularly low level. However, with a Republican victory in the November 2000 election, Algeria’s President Bouteflika, an experienced former Foreign Minister, quickly made his sentiments known to the new US administration and was invited in July 2001 to a summit meeting in Washington with President Bush. Bush listened sympathetically to Bouteflika’s account of how his country had dealt with the fight against terrorists and to his request for specific military equipment that would enable his army to maintain peace, security and stability in Algeria. nAt that moment, Algeria had a greater need for US support than vice-versa. But that was soon to change. The 9/11 terrorist attacks precipitated a whole new era in US-Algerian relations. Over the next four years, Bush and Bouteflika met six more times to develop a largely covert and highly duplicitous alliance.

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Debate widens as ban on US women to serve on frontline is lifted

By Greg Jaffe Hours after the Pentagon lifted the ban on women in combat, Valerie Warner typed out an ­e-mail to her grandfather, Volney Warner, a retired four-star general who helped oversee the integration of women into the Army in the 1970s. Valerie Warner, an Iraq combat veteran, excitedly laid out her ­detailed plan for incorporating women into infantry units. A few hours later, her grandfather replied, writing, “I remain convinced that women are better at giving life than taking it.” He added that although women play an important role in the Army, he thinks that they have no place in combat units. No family better captures the flurry of … Continue reading

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Guardian Angel Volume One: The beginning
How the Rwandese infiltrated Uganda

Last week we read from Dr Arnold Spero Bisase’s book Guardian Angel Volume One: The Beginning how former Makerere University Vice Chancellor Frank Kalimuzo led the efforts to put into action the Tutsi Dynasty Plan for governing the Great Lakes Region. How did he do this? It is all in today’s serialisation of Dr Bisase’s book. Right here. They ferried them young, they ferried them old; they ferried them wretched, they ferried them beautiful. Into religious homes, rich homes, famous homes, humble homes, missionary schools, government schools, private schools and village schools. On local grants, international grants; as orphans and quasi orphans; as refugees and herdsmen; they entered Uganda through Namutamba, … Continue reading

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Why the United Nations is amongst the world’s biggest failures

Coincidentally or not, most of the UN’s astounding failures recently have been in Africa, particularly Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Congo and Sudan.  While the United Nations’ bureaucrats and troops deployed in South Sudan fly in and out of Uganda’s Entebbe airport, ordinary people take one of the many buses that depart from a derelict bus stand in the centre of Kampala for the capital Juba. A distance of 515 kilometres is covered in 12-14 hours if one is lucky, which means no rains, no accidents and no breakdowns. The Republic of South Sudan is the world’s newest country, having seceded from the Republic of the Sudan in July 2011 after a … Continue reading

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