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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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04KIGALI1162 | SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT INFILTRATES RWANDA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new Chief Editor of Rwanda's most independent newspaper, "Umuseso", Charles Kabonero, was detained for six weeks in December 2003, not recently as reported by international media. He reports that a special intelligence unit within the National Police's Criminal Investigation [...] | 2004-08-13 05:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS RW |
04KIGALI1163 | DARFUR: PROBLEMS WITH RWANDAN TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) Charge spoke with Dutch Charge the morning of 13 August regarding the movement of a company of Rwandan soldiers to Darfur to provide protection to AU observers. According to Dutch Charge, one commercial aircraft will transport RDF troops and equipment in two or three sorties from Kigal [...] | 2004-08-13 09:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS RW SU NL |
04KIGALI1165 | RWANDA'S UNHCR CAMPS FACE RESETTLEMENT CHALLENGE [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) runs three refugee camps and three transit centers in Rwanda. The camps house Congolese and Burundian refugees, while the transit centers provide for Rwandans returning from neighboring countries. During recent visits to the UN [...] | 2004-08-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SMIG RW CG BY UNHCR |
04KIGALI1166 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR RWANDAN DEFENSE FORCES [...] This is an action request for the Department (please see paragraph 4). 2. The RDF will deploy the following unit to Darfur, on or around August 14: -- A Co, 99th BN, 305th BDE, from Kibuye The company is not (NOT) a composite unit. -- The following officers are OPCON in support of th [...] | 2004-08-13 10:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MASS PHUM RW SU |
04KIGALI1169 | CONGO'S VICE PRESIDENT RUBERWA VISITS RWANDA TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following meetings in Kigali with President Kagame and other GOR principals, DRC Vice President Ruberwa met with Banyamulenge refugees in Cyangugu and urged them to return to eastern Congo. Banyamulenge are concerned about their personal safety and economic security, including los [...] | 2004-08-16 07:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET | PREL PREF SMIG RW CG |
04KIGALI1175 | RWANDAN GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS ATTACK ON BURUNDI [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Rwandan foreign ministry issued a communique dated August 14 condemning the recent attack on Burundi's Gatumba refugee camp that killed up to 170 Banyamulenge refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The GOR communique attributes the attack to "a combined force" of ex- [...] | 2004-08-16 14:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF MOPS RW BY CG |
04KIGALI1193 | NAM DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO RWANDAN OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-19 11:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC RW |
04KIGALI1208 | EMBASSY KIGALI PARTICIPATION IN SEVENTH [...] Summary. Post sponsored a booth at the seventh annual Rwandan Trade Fair that showcased Rwandan exports to the United States and provided information on the theme "Global Business Partners." The presentation, the first of its kind to be offered by any diplomatic mission in Rwanda, was well r [...] | 2004-08-20 08:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL EAGR KTEX EINV RW AGOA |
04KIGALI877 | KAGAME REPORTEDLY DISAPPOINTED WITH LACK OF USG [...] (S/NF) ON JUNE 24, A SENIOR RWANDAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PROVIDED COMMENTS ON THE REACTION OF PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME TO A MEETING WITH VISITING AF DAS DON YAMAMOTO AND AF/C DIRECTOR AL EASTHAM ON JUNE 23 IN KIGALI. 2. (S/NF) KAGAME WAS REPORTEDLY DISAPPOINTED TH [...] | 2004-06-24 13:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET | PREL PINS MOPS RW CG |
05KIGALI27 | KAGAME CRITICIZES NATION'S OFFICIALS FOR ALLOWING [...] SUMMARY: In his closing address to over 800 GOR officials attending a constitutionally mandated "National Council of Dialogue", President Kagame hailed "good governance, security and patriotism" -- rather than "foreigners' wishes and beliefs" -- as the foundation for Rwanda's development. He [...] | 2005-01-10 13:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
06KIGALI1013 | DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS [...] (U) A Joint Partner Implementation Support Mission of the partners of the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) for the Great Lakes regions held a three day conference in Kigali 4-6 October to review and assess the progress made in implementing the program and key compl [...] | 2006-10-18 06:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PREL MONUC CG RW |
06KIGALI1014 | DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS [...] (U) A Joint Partner Implementation Support Mission of the partners of the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) for the Great Lakes regions held a three day conference in Kigali 4-6 October to review and assess the progress made in implementing the program and key compl [...] | 2006-10-18 06:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PREL MONUC CG RW |
06KIGALI1017 | GOR ON TRACK TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY [...] (U) On 17 October Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama held a press conference to announce a "nation wide debate" on the abolishment of the death penalty in Rwanda. Although it has not been implemented since 22 genocidaires were shot by firing squads in 1997, the subject has been a k [...] | 2006-10-19 16:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS |
06KIGALI1026 | LEBANON DEMARCHE AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT FACTS [...] On 25 October poloff delivered women's empowerment fact sheet (ref A) and demarche and talking points (ref B) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amercia Division Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara had no comment on the fact sheet or talking points but agreed that the GOR and Israel have a posit [...] | 2006-10-27 06:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PTER UNGA KWMN IS LE RW |
06KIGALI1027 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MONUC AND UN GROUP OF EXPERTS [...] (U) On 20 October Ambassador had separate meetings with the Chairman of the UN DRC Group of Experts (GOE) Ambassador Ibra Ka and MONUC Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) Haile Menkerios. Ka and Menkerios SIPDIS updated Ambassador on the status of their respective [...] | 2006-10-27 10:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PREL MCC RW CG UG UNSC |
06KIGALI1035 | TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER (TFCO) [...] TFCO -- Richard M. Kaminski, Chief, Political and Economic Section, Tel Nr.: (250) 505-601/2/3; E-Mail Address: KaminskiRM@state.gov 2. Deputy TFCO -- Daniel M. Stoian, Economic Officer Tel. Nr.: (250) 505-601/2/3 [...] | 2006-11-01 12:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER RW |
06KIGALI1047 | FIRST TIFA COUNCIL MEETING IN KIGALI [...] (U) Summary. Deputy United States Trade Representative Ambassador Karan Bhatia led the USG delegation to the first-ever Trade and Investment Council Meeting held in Kigali on October 31. Discussions covered such topics as the WTO DOHA round of negotiations, AGOA and bilateral trade, trade c [...] | 2006-11-03 11:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL RW |
06KIGALI1060 | IMF STAFF MISSION TO RWANDA OKAYS 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) An IMF team conducted a staff mission to Rwanda October 18-November 2, and reached agreement in principle with the GOR on budget priorities and policies for 2007. According to IMF team members, the GOR's overly ambitious initial budget numbers have been trimmed, global budget numbers have [...] | 2006-11-06 12:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL RW |
06KIGALI1063 | MAYOR PRESENTS HER VISION FOR KIGALI [...] (U) Summary. On 3 November Kigali City Mayor, Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, briefed diplomatic corps and a small group of stakeholders on her strategic vision for the city. Kacyira presented her municipal government's mission, to make Kigali "a safer, cleaner, more competitive modern city with exp [...] | 2006-11-07 08:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV ECON RW |
06KIGALI1073 | CUBA EMBARGO AND UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 06:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC KTIA UN CU RW |
06KIGALI1074 | ICTR PROSECUTOR ADDRESSES COMPLETION STRATEGY AND [...] (SBU) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow addressed the Kigali diplomatic corps November 9, following a two-day conference organized jointly by the ICTR and the University of Rwanda entitled "Challenging Impunity." Jallow outlined next steps fo [...] | 2006-11-09 14:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI1090 | GACACA: SOME JUSTICE, LITTLE RECONCILIATION, IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 7, former energy minister Bonaventure Niyibizi traveled to his birthplace in western Rwanda to attend the gacaca trial of four men accused of the murder of his mother in the 1994 genocide. Some measure of justice occurred -- four men offered partial confessions and [...] | 2006-11-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI1110 | PAUL RUSESABAGINA LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-17 12:54:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
06KIGALI1111 | NO IMMEDIATE ANSWER FROM GOR MFA ON BELARUS AND [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affaris Americas Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara did not have an immediate response to talking points (reftels). When pressed on how the USG can ensure its positions are thoroughly communicated to the Rwandan UN delegation, Rutikara said direct lobbying by USUN official [...] | 2006-11-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UNGA IS BO RW |
06KIGALI1119 | UK ASSISTS GOR IN GENOCIDAIRE EXTRADITION REQUEST [...] (C) Summary. There are two British investigators in Rwanda working with the Rwandan Justice Ministry and Prosecutor's Office to build extradition requests of four suspected genocidaires living in the UK that will withstand the scrutiny of the British legal system. Because the UK does not hav [...] | 2006-11-21 12:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC UK RW |
06KIGALI1125 | RWANDAN RESPONSE TO FRENCH JUDGE'S ARREST WARRANTS [...] (U) In response to press reports that a French judge had requested arrest warrants for nine senior GOR officials allegedly involved in the downing of the Juvenal Habyarimana presidential jet on April 6, 1994, the GOR on November 21 formally denied its officials' involvement. "There is no ba [...] | 2006-11-22 16:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KAWC RW |
06KIGALI1130 | RWANDA CONTEMPLATES BREAKING RELATIONS WITH FRANCE [...] (C) Ambassador Richard Sezibera (protect),Great Lakes Special Envoy for the Rwandan Government, called Ambassador early on the morning of November 24 to report that the GOR was "moving toward breaking relations with France," as a result of the French issuance of international arrest warrant [...] | 2006-11-24 11:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC RW |
06KIGALI1133 | FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEF DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON RUPTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 25, Foreign Minister Charles Murigande briefed the diplomatic corps on the GOR decision to break relations with France and expel French diplomats from Rwanda. The decision by a French judge to issue international arrest warrants for nine senior Rwanda officials (re [...] | 2006-11-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC RW |
06KIGALI1142 | THE FRENCH LEAVE RWANDA [...] (U) Twenty-five French Embassy and other official personnel left Kigali on 27 November at 19:00 local time via a Rwandair Express flight to Entebbe. The atmosphere was somber in the airport VIP lounge, the French said final good-byes, took photos and shared chocolate. There was no press and [...] | 2006-11-28 16:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KAWC PREL FR RW |
06KIGALI1143 | MEETING WITH GOR ON MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador and AID Director met on November 21 with Ambassador Sezibera and other GOR staff on the just-announced Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold program. Sezibera pronounced the GOR committed to a successful program, and anxious to get to work with mission and MCC [...] | 2006-11-28 16:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL RW |
06KIGALI1148 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON MCC AND DARFUR [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Murigande November 23 to discuss the Millenium Challenge Corporation selection of Rwanda for its Threshold Program, and the current situation in Darfur. Murigande welcomed the MCC decision, particularly given the recent drop in some of the World Ban [...] | 2006-11-29 10:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL RW |
06KIGALI1163 | SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS MEETING IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOR convened its sixth annual Development Partners Meeting in Kigali on November 22 to 24. Sessions included presentations and discussions on such topics as economic growth, private sector development, agriculture, decentralization, aid policy, and governance. Donor gover [...] | 2006-12-03 09:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID RW |
06KIGALI1169 | SPECIAL SELF HELP PROGRAM: FY 2005 ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT [...] FY 2006 ANNUAL REPORT: Following is a description of the 17 FY 2006 projects funded by an allocation of USD 76,000. All of the projects are active. A. Project Number: SHF-6-696-01 Project Name: Goat raising Grantee: Abadahemuka Beneficiaries: 25 U.S. Contribution: $5129 Local Cont [...] | 2006-12-06 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AFIN RW |
06KIGALI1171 | GOR:NKUNDA FIGHTING FARDC NOT FDLR [...] (C) According to Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) spokesman Major Jill Rutaremara the recent fighting in North Kivu (reftel) is between the forces of renegade General Laurent Nkunda and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). At 1530 local time 6 December Rutaremara told polo [...] | 2006-12-07 05:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL RW |
06KIGALI1175 | RWANDA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Below is Embassy Kigali's submission of the 2006 Country Report on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) The Rwandan Government made efforts to combat terrorism financing and continued to increase its border control measures to identify potential terrorists. Rwanda has an intergovernmental counterterr [...] | 2006-12-07 15:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM RW |
06KIGALI1176 | GOR DEMARCHED ON HRC SUDAN SPECIAL SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 11:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN SU RW |
06KIGALI1187 | RWANDA WILL ROTATE ITS DARFUR TROOPS [...] (SBU) Action request. The GOR communicated its intent to rotate the three Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) battalions in Darfur, Sudan with three new battalions. The diplomatic note (text below) indicates a desire for the USG to provide the airlift for the troop rotation "by the end of December 2 [...] | 2006-12-12 15:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS NATO PREL SU RW |
06KIGALI1188 | BWINDI CASE: RWANDA ENDORSES TRANSFER TO UGANDA [...] (C) Ambassador met with Rwandan Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga December 6 to discuss the Bwindi murder case. Ambassador communicated the decision by U.S. federal prosecutors to dismiss the case, and seek transfer of the suspects to Uganda for prosecution (Note: the 1999 murders occurred in [...] | 2006-12-13 07:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM RW |
06KIGALI1189 | UPDATE ON BACOR CASE INVOLVING VALENS KAJEGUHAKWA [...] (C) Ambassador discussed the Banque Continentale Africaine-Rwanda (BAKOR) case with Rwandan Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga on December 6. Mission understands the Department has been requested by DHS to secure additional information on the disposition of the case as it concerns the four fel [...] | 2006-12-13 07:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM RW |
06KIGALI1192 | Land of a thousand hills is not always a land of a thousand [...] SUMMARY. Moses Turyazooka is one of the approximately 500,000 Rwandan refugees who grew up in Uganda and returned to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. He is a well-educated and driven entrepreneur who was raised on diaspora ideology - a deep love for the country of Rwanda and a strong desire to [...] | 2006-12-14 12:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID BTIO EINV EINT XA RW |
06KIGALI1198 | RWANDA UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary. There are few updates to post's August submission of Worst Forms of Child Labor information for mandatory reporting requirements as requested (ref A). GOR continues to take the issue seriously; however, progress is gradual due to the lack of capacity in the Ministries charged with [...] | 2006-12-14 16:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI USAID RW |
06KIGALI1199 | MCC VISIT TO RWANDA A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary. From December 10-12 a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) delegation held an intensive round of meetings with GOR officials, local and international NGOs (including USAID partners),the private sector, the media, and heads of diplomatic missions in Kigali. The MCC team int [...] | 2006-12-15 10:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID KMCA RW |
06KIGALI1219 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements (reftel),please screen the following Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) officer and report any derogatory information to post. Major Gatete Karuranga, Rwandan citizen, DOB 19650616, is scheduled to attend trainin [...] | 2006-12-22 09:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI1223 | PRESS FREEDOM: END OF YEAR WRAP-UP [...] Issues of press freedom in 2006 remained the subject of much debate and action in Rwanda. A year which began with public criticism of Rwanda's media by President Kagame and of individual reporters by other officials later saw clear signs that senior GOR officials recognize the importance of a [...] | 2006-12-22 11:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI180 | MEDIA COVERAGE OF BIZIMUMGU TRIAL REFLECTS [...] (U) Summary: Local and international media provided mixed commentary on the Bizimungu verdict announced February 17 (reftel). While some lauded the long-awaited decision of the Rwandan Supreme Court as a positive development in Rwanda's judicial reform process and an example of the judiciary [...] | 2006-02-23 15:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI181 | RWANDA SENATE ASSERTS AUTONOMY, SUMMONS MINISTERS [...] (U) Summary: On February 2 and 9, Internal Affairs Minister Christophe Bazivamo and Justice Minister Edda Mukabagwiza were summoned by the Senate to two public hearings to address questions on national security and judicial issues. Senators expressed concerns over serious human rights violat [...] | 2006-02-23 15:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI183 | 2006 SECTOR-LEVEL ELECTIONS: ORDERLY, HIGH VOTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The second phase of 2006 Rwanda local elections, conducted February 20 at the sector level, proceeded smoothly. Polling sites were easy to find and easy to access, and local National Electoral Commission staff appeared to follow established guidelines and procedures. Voters w [...] | 2006-02-24 07:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI184 | GOR GROUNDS SN BRUSSELS PASSANGER PLANE [...] (U) On 21 February the Rwandan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) grounded an SN Brussels Airlines passenger plane for violating saftey standards. Flight 463, from Kigali to Brussels with one stop in Nairobi, had over 200 passengers, including at least two Amcits. The CAA claimed: -- The safety be [...] | 2006-02-24 14:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV PREL BE KY RW |
06KIGALI192 | RWANDA COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING CHILD LABOR BUT [...] Summary: In a meeting February 24, UNICEF indicated that while child labor is a problem in Rwanda, child trafficking and prostitution do not appear to be prevalent. UNICEF-Rwanda Head of Child Protection attributed the incidence of child labor to the large number of vulnerable orphans, parti [...] | 2006-02-27 17:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB RW |
06KIGALI193 | DEMAND FOR RWANDAN SPECIALTY COFFEE ON THE RISE [...] Summary: Ambassador hosted an event February 24 for a visiting delegation from the Specialty Coffee Association of America, which represents the USD 20 billion U.S. coffee industry. This first annual coffee event showcased the exceptional quality of Rwandan specialty coffee and marked the b [...] | 2006-02-27 18:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ETRD RW |
06KIGALI199 | JUSTICE MINISTRY WELCOMES RULE OF LAW DIALOGUE, [...] Summary: In a meeting February 27 with the Ministry of Justice, Ambassador expressed his desire to engage the Rwandan government on a range of important issues, including rule of law, democracy and governance. Secretary General Johnston Busingye welcomed the opportunity for further dialogue [...] | 2006-02-28 17:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB RW |
06KIGALI220 | KIGALI CITY ELECTS WOMAN MAYOR [...] Summary: In the final phase of 2006 local elections March 4, a woman parliamentarian was elected mayor of Kigali by an overwhelming majority. As in the earlier phases of the electoral process (reftels),voter turnout was high. An estimated 94 percent of the electoral college, comprised of [...] | 2006-03-06 15:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI221 | SN BRUSSELS SUSPENDS OPERATIONS TO RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. SN Brussels, the only carrier flying directly from Rwanda to Europe, has suspended all flights to Rwanda until further notice. High-level diplomatic discussions regarding the three-day grounding (February 21-24) of an SN Brussels flight by the Rwandan Civil Aviation Authority ( [...] | 2006-03-06 15:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PGOV BE KY RW |
06KIGALI228 | HOTEL RWANDA MANAGER NO HERO TO GOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been an ongoing public campaign to discredit Paul Rusesabagina, the former manager of Hotel des Mille Collines during the 1994 genocide and current hero in the US and Europe due to the film 'Hotel Rwanda', in Rwanda. The efforts to damage the reputation of Mr. Rusesabagin [...] | 2006-03-08 06:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR RW BG |
06KIGALI236 | CONTINUED GOR INTEREST IN PEACE CORPS [...] On 9 March Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Murigande in response to a request by the Minister to discuss the return of the US Peace Corps to Rwanda. Minister Murigande explained that he had met with a Peace Corps delegation led by Mr. Henry McCoy in 2004 and he asked if there was any prog [...] | 2006-03-10 13:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI238 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON HOTEL RWANDA, HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND NEPAD [...] (C) Summary. In a 9 March meeting with Foreign Minister Murigande, Ambassador delivered the 2005 Human Rights Report (HRR),discussed Paul Rusesabagina and inquired about the NEPAD Peer Review Report. Upon receipt of the HRR, Minister Murigande was defensive but also appreciative of the Ambass [...] | 2006-03-13 10:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | NOTAG RW |
06KIGALI242 | RWANDA REPORT FOR 2006 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON [...] Per reftel, information below provides a summary of each of the requested areas. Market Economy/Economic Reform/Trade Barriers --------------------------------------------- 2. Economic Situation: Rwanda's economy remains largely dependent upon foreign aid, while its population remains [...] | 2006-03-13 19:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PHUM XA RW |
06KIGALI267 | STATUS OF RWANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary. On 13 March, Ambassador met with Sylvie Zainabo Kayitesi, the Chairperson of the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR),to present the 2005 Human Rights Report (HRR) and discuss the work of the NCHR. Ambassador Arietti discussed the importance the USG places on the respect [...] | 2006-03-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI269 | RWANDA IMPLEMENTS MEASURES TO COMBAT THREAT OF [...] With the recent outbreaks of Avian Influenza (AI) in Africa, Rwanda is moving forward in its preparedness to address the threat to both human and animal populations. The Government of Rwanda (GOR) has revitalized an inter- ministerial steering committee, originally formed in November 2005. Th [...] | 2006-03-20 11:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI TBIO WHO RW |
06KIGALI270 | US AMBASSADOR TO DRC VISITS RWANDA [...] (C) Summary. US Ambassador Meece visited Rwanda March 2-4. Highlights of the visit included a stop at Mutobo Demobilization Camp; a meeting with National Security Service (NSS) Secretary General Ndahiro; and a meeting with Foreign Minister Murigande and Ambassador Sezibera, Special Envoy for t [...] | 2006-03-21 12:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RW CG KE XA |
06KIGALI277 | AMIS RE-HAT AND 3RD PROTOCOL DEMARCHES TO GOR [...] (SBU) On 21 March, poloff delivered demarche and talking points (ref A) to Augustin Rutikara, America's desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rutikara was noncommittal when asked if the GOR would remain in Darfur if and when it becomes a UN mission. He acknowledged the questionable [...] | 2006-03-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AORC ICRC PHUM PREF SZ SU RW |
06KIGALI281 | PRESIDENT KAGAME RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] Summary: On March 11 President Kagame announced a cabinet reshuffle, replacing the Finance Minister, dropping three ministers, and creating a new ministerial post in the Office of the President for scientific research and technology. Despite rumors for several weeks of an impending shake-up [...] | 2006-03-23 16:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RW |
06KIGALI283 | AJELLO VISIT TO RWANDAN DEMOBILIZATION CENTER [...] (U) Summary. On 17 March Ambassador Aldo Ajello, EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, visited Mutobo Demobilization and Reintegration Center. Poloff accompanied the EU delegation to a special site visit set up by the Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) to introduce Ajell [...] | 2006-03-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREL CG RW |
06KIGALI285 | SOF TRAINING FOR RDF [...] (SBU) United States Embassy, Kigali country team supports and welcomes a United States European Command-funded, Special Operations Command, Europe (SOCEUR) military-to-military programmed, Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) training course to be conducted in Rwanda in July 2006. The purpose of t [...] | 2006-03-27 14:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MOPS PREL RW |
06KIGALI286 | RWANDA SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF AF A/S JENDAYI [...] Post warmly welcomes your visit to Rwanda. Rwanda is a country struggling to overcome its past and bring its people and economy into the 21st century. The legacy of the 1994 genocide in which up to one million people were killed still haunts the country and underlies the tension faced by a [...] | 2006-03-28 05:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KDEM RW |
06KIGALI291 | GOR Discusses Human Rights Report, Promises [...] (SBU) Summary: During a candid meeting March 22 with Ambassador and Embassy poloffs and PD officer on the 2005 Human Rights Report, senior GOR officials raised several issues, including what they characterized as the report's accusatory tone and lack of context. Officials also voiced concern [...] | 2006-03-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI328 | THE PRESIDENT'S MALARIA INITIATIVE IN RWANDA [...] Ambassador Michael Arietti and USAID Mission Director Kevin Mullally met on April 4 with Government of Rwanda Health Minister Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo to inquire as to the government's interest in taking part in the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and Rwanda's governmental and no [...] | 2006-04-10 09:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID RW |
06KIGALI334 | PRESIDENT KAGAME MEETS WITH A/S FRAZER [...] (SBU) Summary. On 6 April, A/S Frazer met with President Kagame at his office on the presidential compound. Also in attendance were Ambassador Arietti, Foreign Minister Murigande, Chef du Cabinet Kabija, National Security Service Director Ndahiro, AF Special Assistant Gaither and poloff. Kaga [...] | 2006-04-12 10:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL RW CG SU |
06KIGALI340 | GOR RESPONSE TO ARREST OF FDLR PRESIDENT IN GERMANY [...] (SBU) On 11 April poloff met with German DCM to discuss the recent arrest of the president of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR),Ignace Murwanashyaka, by German authorities in Mannheim, Germany. According to Hans Von Schroeder, Murwanashyaka will be detained for approxi [...] | 2006-04-12 16:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREF PREL MONUC RW CG BY UG GE BE |
06KIGALI354 | GOR RECEIVES USG POSITION ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] In a 10 April meeting with Ambassador Amri-Sued Ismael, Advisor to the President on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ambassador Arietti discussed the USG position on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) per ref B. On 17 April, poloff delivered talking points and the Secretary's message from ref B [...] | 2006-04-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PHUM PREL UNGA KUNR RW |
06KIGALI365 | VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER TO RWANDA [...] (C) In a successful, productive visit to Rwanda April 4-8, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer engaged in candid discussion on a broad range of issues from regional security, bilateral relations, and Darfur to democracy and human rights. In her meetings with senior [...] | 2006-04-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAGR KDEM PHUM KPKO MOPS RW CG |
06KIGALI381 | RWANDA: FY 2006 ESF PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] Per reftel post submits the following summaries of two proposed projects for FY 2006 Africa regional ESF funding, including the total amount requested for each project and an explanation of how the projects would advance our MPP objectives and U.S. national interests. The projects focus on s [...] | 2006-04-24 14:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI382 | National Reconciliation a Top Priority for Rwanda [...] Summary: During an April 20 meeting with Ambassador, National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) Executive Secretary Fatuma Ndangiza described NURC's primary role as promoting national reconciliation through civic education. Since 1999, NURC has conducted surveys, including a nation [...] | 2006-04-24 17:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI393 | Catholic Church of Rwanda Supports Gacaca, [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April 11 meeting with the Papal Nuncio, Ambassador brought up a recent note verbale from the Vatican that criticized gacaca (ref A). Ambassador noted that he is aware of concerns that gacaca is not serving the purpose for which it was created and that the GOR, itself, [...] | 2006-04-26 18:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI405 | Embassy Comments on Vatican Note on Gacaca [...] Summary: Ref (A) Vatican note criticizes the gacaca tribunals in Rwanda for not serving the purposes for which they were created. It characterizes the gacaca process as politically manipulated and procedurally flawed, citing specific concerns. While Embassy recognizes, as does the GOR, tha [...] | 2006-04-28 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS VT RW |
06KIGALI407 | FORMER PRESIDENT ASKS KAGAME FOR A PARDON [...] (U) Summary. Ex-President Pasteur Bizimungu recently submitted a handwritten letter to President Kagame requesting a pardon for his 2004 conviction for incitement of civil disobedience, formation of a criminal association and embezzlement of public funds. In the letter, Bizimungu maintains th [...] | 2006-04-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | AFSN KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI408 | Embassy Commemorates 28 Local Staff Killed During [...] Summary: On April 20 Embassy held a memorial service in honor of 28 locally engaged staff killed during the 1994 genocide. The fifth annual commemoration brought together American and local staff with the widows and orphans of the victims. In his remarks, Ambassador acknowledged that the i [...] | 2006-04-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AFSN KDEM RW |
06KIGALI410 | GOR DEMARCHED ON UN HRC AND AU MISSION IN SUDAN [...] (U) On 28 April, DCM delivered the talking points from refs to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Secretary General Amandin Rugira. 2. (SBU) Rugira said he was aware of the reported lack of response by African Union forces in close proximity to attacks on civilians in Darfur. He s [...] | 2006-05-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR NATO PARM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SOCI EUN |
06KIGALI411 | Ambassador Urges GOR to Publicly Respond to [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met April 21 with the recently appointed Minister of Internal Security to discuss bilateral cooperation on security, human rights, and democracy. He urged the Ministry to investigate and publish its findings in response to each reported incident of alleged police hara [...] | 2006-05-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI428 | UN DRC Sanctions Committee Group of Experts [...] (SBU) Summary: During its visit to Kigali April 20-29, the UN DRC Sanctions Committee Group of Experts briefed Embassy on the focus of its current mandate and its challenges in the region. The experts highlighted the need for tighter immigration control at the DRC border, a GDRC mechanism fo [...] | 2006-05-08 11:42:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO ETTC RW |
06KIGALI445 | RWANDANS IN BURUNDI: ASYLUM SEEKERS BEGIN RETURNING [...] (U) In an 8 May meeting with poloff, UNHCR External Relations Officer Beatriz Garcia reported that the flow of Rwandans departing for Burundi has stopped and that there are unconfirmed reports that several hundred Rwandans have left northern Burundi and returned to southern Rwanda. UNHCR has [...] | 2006-05-10 17:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL UNHCR RW BY |
06KIGALI449 | World Health Assembly: Smallpox Demarche [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 13:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC TBIO WHO RW |
06KIGALI456 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT ELIGIBILITY [...] (C) In its recent indicator analysis of Rwanda, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) noted that Rwanda failed four of the six Ruling Justly indicators. Based on consolidated evaluations of third-party institutions, MCC provided Embassy Kigali a summary of Rwanda,s strengths and weakness [...] | 2006-05-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI463 | STATUS OF LAND REFORM [...] Land ownership has been a major issue of conflict throughout much of Rwanda's history, and 80 percent of current legal disputes involve land. The GOR adopted a land law in 2005, which made it the final owner of all land in Rwanda and provided for leases of up to ninety-nine years; however, ma [...] | 2006-05-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV EAGR RW |
06KIGALI464 | Rwandan Government Action on Child Protection and [...] Summary: During a May 8 courtesy call on the Minister in Charge of Family and Gender Promotion in the Prime Minister's Office, Ambassador underscored USG interest in gender issues, in particular trafficking in persons, and Embassy's desire to provide assistance to the GOR to combat child pros [...] | 2006-05-15 14:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB SOCI RW |
06KIGALI477 | RWANDAN PRIVATE SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] Reports on Rwanda's development identify the private sector as a necessary engine for economic growth. This cable, the first in a series, provides an analysis of the Rwandan private sector and the overall business environment. It provides a brief overview of the private sector, describes the [...] | 2006-05-17 15:54:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD USTR BTIO ECON RW |
06KIGALI480 | THE STATE OF PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA [...] (U) Press freedom in Rwanda--despite the legacy of a media tainted by complicity in the genocide and lingering mistrust between the government and journalists--has in recent years taken root. Several independent radio stations and newspapers currently are operating. While reports of self-cen [...] | 2006-05-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI482 | Catholic Archbishop Notes Improved Church-State [...] Summary: During a May 17 discussion with polchief on religious freedom in Rwanda, the Catholic Archbishop of Kigali noted that relations between the GOR and the Catholic Church have improved, with greater collaboration on social services and other services, such as security. He noted, howev [...] | 2006-05-18 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI RW |
06KIGALI483 | EMBASSY DELIVERS AGOA DEMARCHE AND INVITATION [...] Per ref A, post delivered on May 9 a letter of invitation from Secretary Rice to Minister of Commerce Protais Mitali and Minister of Finance James Musoni for Rwanda to participate in the fifth U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum) in Washington, D.C. June 6 [...] | 2006-05-18 16:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ETRD EINV EFIN EAID RW |
06KIGALI489 | REACHING OUT TO THE RWANDAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] On May 13, Ambassador attended the opening ceremony of Al- Halaal Micro-Finance Institution, a new private financial credit company established consistent with Islamic banking principles. The Ambassador's participation was part of post's continuing effort to reach out to the Muslim community, [...] | 2006-05-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ODIP SCUL RW |
06KIGALI496 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S ROUNDTABLE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. During a roundtable discussion April 5 with Rwandan parliamentarians and a separate call on the president of the Rwandan Senate, Assistant Secretary Frazer addressed recent developments in the Great Lakes region, human rights issues, the role of parliament in Rwandan society, [...] | 2006-05-25 06:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM KMCA RW CG |
06KIGALI514 | EMBASSY DELIVERS DEMARCHES ON IRAN AND UN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 13:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC AMGT UNGA IR RW |
06KIGALI517 | U.S. TRIPARTITE DELEGATION MEMBERS DISCUSS HUMAN [...] Summary: During a May 24 meeting with Ambassador Arietti and visiting U.S. Tripartite Plus delegation members, Rwandan parliamentarians discussed the gap between perception and reality on Rwanda's performance on human rights. They asserted that outsiders criticize Rwanda without fully under [...] | 2006-05-31 15:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KMCA RW |
06KIGALI540 | RWANDAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS MEET WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 24 meeting with prominent local civil society leaders, Ambassador expressed U.S. support of the role of civil society in Rwanda, stressing the critical balance it brings to government decision- making. Civil society leaders discussed their goals, successes, and in [...] | 2006-06-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
06KIGALI555 | GOR DEMARCHED ON NAM IRAN STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 11:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KNNP PREL IAEA USNC IR RW |
06KIGALI578 | KIGALI DELIVERS MDA DEMARCHE [...] Per reftel, post delivered on June 19 a demarche on the June 20-21 International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, which will take place in Geneva. 2. The Government of Rwanda has confirmed that a member of its delegation in Geneva will attend the conference and will vote in f [...] | 2006-06-19 16:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ICRC PHUM PREF PREL IS RW |
06KIGALI579 | TRIPARTITE PLUS SUB-COMMISSION STRENGTHENS FUSION [...] Summary: The U.S.-facilitated Tripartite Plus Sub- Commission on Security and Defense met in Kigali May 26-27 to discuss ways to enhance the operational effectiveness of the Tripartite Fusion Cell (TFC) and to develop a consolidated "most wanted" list to submit to the Tripartite Plus Council [...] | 2006-06-19 16:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR ETTC PTER PINR RW |
06KIGALI595 | FRENCH REPORTER ORDERED TO LEAVE RWANDA [...] (U) Summary. Radio France International (RFI) correspondent, French citizen Sonia Rolley, left Kigali on June 10 after the GOR refused to renew her visa. Rolley had worked on and off in Rwanda since October 2004 but the visa renewal request was rejected by Rwandan Immigration and she was di [...] | 2006-06-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI607 | ACOTA PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD IN RWANDA [...] SUMMARY. During 21-23 July 2006, representatives of the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) Program and the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) collaborated on plans for near-term pre-deployment peace support operations (PSO) training for RDF battalions preparing to deploy t [...] | 2006-06-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR MASS PGOV PREL RW SU ACOTA ET |
06KIGALI613 | SAO NOT NECESSARY FOR RWANDANS WISHING TO TRAVEL TO US [...] SUMMARY. AmEmbassy Kigali and the government of Rwanda concur in a recommendation to end the current requirement in ref A that Embassies and Consulates submit SAO clearances on all Rwandans born before 1981 who are applying outside of Kigali for NIV's, IV's, refugee status or other travel doc [...] | 2006-06-28 06:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREF RW |
06KIGALI614 | PRESSING GOR ON AMIS TRANSITION TO UN [...] On 27 June poloff delivered demarche (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs desk officer Daniel Mutezintare in order to reiterate Ambassador's earlier discussions with Foreign Minister Murigande on the USG position on the re-hatting of AMIS to a UN peacekeeping operation. Poloff emphasized t [...] | 2006-06-28 09:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR PINS PREL SOCI SU RW |
06KIGALI653 | GOR SOLICITED ON SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA [...] On 30 June, poloff discussed talking points (reftel) with Daniel Mutezintare, the focal point for UN issues in the Minstry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mutezintare said that the GOR was currently not committed to supporting either Guatemala or Venezuela, but he would brief Foreign Minister Muriga [...] | 2006-07-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE RW |
06KIGALI667 | GOR RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] On 10 July, poloff delivered talking points and White House Statement (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara agreed with the USG position that the missile launches were a negative development for the world and that the international community should [...] | 2006-07-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN PARM KNNP RW |
06KIGALI687 | FORMER INTEL CHIEF KAREGEYA SENTENCED FOR [...] (U) Summary. On 13 July a Rwandan Military Tribunal ruled that Col. Patrick Karegeya was guilty of insubordination and desertion and sentenced him to a prison term of one year and eight months. Both the prosecution and defense intend to appeal the verdict at the Military High Court. End summ [...] | 2006-07-13 16:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PHUM RW UG |
06KIGALI712 | DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ENGAGES RWANDA [...] Summary. At the request of USTR, Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Susan McDermott led a delegation to Rwanda to explore areas of assistance. The GOR was keen on soliciting support for a COMESA air traffic management project, but the main focus of the visit was [...] | 2006-07-20 14:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAID EAIR ECIN PREL ECON RW KE TZ UG |
06KIGALI716 | MILITARY PROSECUTOR DISCUSSES HIGH PROFILE CASES [...] (U) Summary. On 19 July poloff met with Major Christophe Bizimungu, Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) Chief Prosecutor, to discuss the status of three high profile cases currently being handled by his office. Bizimungu presented a detailed case against Colonel Patrick Karegeya, former head of the [...] | 2006-07-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC KJUS PGOV RW |
06KIGALI724 | IRAN INCENTIVE AND HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON [...] On 27 July poloff delivered the "P5 1 Incentive Package for Iran" and "High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development" demarches (reftels) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara had no immediate comment on the subjects but assured poloff the t [...] | 2006-07-28 10:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KNNP PARM PREF UNGA RW IR EU |
06KIGALI726 | GOR ON RELATIONS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) Summary. On July 5 Emboffs met with GOR officials to discuss the relationship between civil society and the GOR. The meeting provided an opportunity for the GOR to clarify its relationship with NGOs, religious organizations, and political parties operating in the country, and to address a [...] | 2006-07-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI727 | NEW HIGH COUNCIL OF THE PRESS APPOINTMENTS [...] (C) Summary. In June the GOR confirmed new appointments for the country,s nine-person High Council of the Press (HCP),which is charged with both regulation of the media and promotion of press freedom in the country. It is hoped that this iteration of the Council (this is the second Council t [...] | 2006-07-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM UNESCO RW |
06KIGALI731 | GOR'S POSITION ON AU SUMMIT, AMIS AND TANZANIAN [...] (U) Summary. On 25 July Rwandan foreign affairs and defense officials briefed diplomatic corps on a variety of issues including the African Union (AU) Summit, the GOR's position on The Great Lakes Conference, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APR [...] | 2006-08-01 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN KPKO KSUM MOPS PREF PREL AU RW TZ SU |
06KIGALI740 | RWANDA SELF HELP PROGRAM RECEIVES EXCITED RECEPTION [...] Post has obligated all of the Ambassador's Special-Help Program funds in fiscal year 2006. 2. U.S. Embassy Kigali hosted on July 20 a signing ceremony for the recipients of the FY2006 Self Help Fund. Charg d'Affaires signed 17 grants worth a total of $76 000. Democracy and Human Rights Fun [...] | 2006-08-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AFIN RW |
06KIGALI784 | JOURNALIST FREED BY GACACA AUTHORITIES [...] (U) Summary. On July 28, Jean Leonard Rugambage, a journalist for the Kinyarwanda fortnightly newspaper Umuco,, who was charged with murdering a bank official in his home district during the genocide, was freed after 11 months in detention. Rugambage had been formally charged with murder one [...] | 2006-08-11 09:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI790 | 'UMUCO' EDITOR BONAVENTURE BIZUMUREMYI REFUSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than one week after being served with a summons to be questioned by the criminal investigation division of the Rwandan National Police, Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, editor of the Kinyarwanda language fortnightly 'Umuco,' remains unwilling to appear for questioning and is on the r [...] | 2006-08-14 11:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI804 | GOR POSITION ON AMIS RE-HAT [...] (C) On 16 August Ambassador reiterated USG position on the UN re-hatting of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) (Ref A) to Rwandan Minister of State in Charge of Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminari. Musemenari had accompanied President Kagame to the Afric [...] | 2006-08-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL UNSC SU RW |
06KIGALI817 | DEATH OF AMCIT MACH VISUDH AROM [...] On Tuesday, August 22, 2006 AMCIT Mach Visudh Arom died of apparent sudden cardiac arrest in the region of Ruhengeri, Rwanda. 2. Mr. Arom was born on March 29, 1968 in Minnesota. Passport number 074699483. 3. Acting Consular Officer was notified on August 22, 2006 by Chris Donovan, Rwan [...] | 2006-08-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC RW |
06KIGALI836 | KIGALI'S NEW MAYOR BANS MOTORCYCLE TAXIS [...] (U) Kigali city residents awoke on Monday, August 21 to an odd sight in central areas of the city: the complete absence of motorcycle taxis plying their trade on busy thoroughfares. The Kigali City Council, led by its new Mayor, Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, banned commercial motorcycles (termed "bod [...] | 2006-08-29 16:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI842 | PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA: CHARGES OF HARASSMENT AND [...] (U) During August, there have been several incidents of alleged threats, and one physical attack, against Rwandan journalists by unknown perpetrators. Two journalists have left the country, although one may return soon. GOR officials vehemently deny any official GOR involvement in negative [...] | 2006-08-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI847 | NEW JUSTICE MINISTER ON PLANS FOR REFORM [...] New Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama outlined his plans for a reformed Justice Ministry in a meeting with the Ambassador on August 28. A revamped administrative structure, strenuous efforts to reduce lagging caseloads, and a pledge to ensure "even-handed investigations" formed the co [...] | 2006-08-31 14:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI848 | GOR RENEWS VOA BROADCAST AGREEMENTS, AIRS ITS [...] On Thursday, August 31, Voice of America Director David Jackson renewed VOA's transmission agreement with Rwanda's public broadcaster, ORINFOR, and signed a licensing agreement with the Ministry of Information. The GOR took the opportunity of the signings to voice strong concerns about what i [...] | 2006-08-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PREL RW |
06KIGALI854 | CHINESE DELEGATIONS VISIT KIGALI [...] (U) Two Chinese delegations visited Kigali the week of August 28. A Communist Party delegation, led by Wu Guanzheng, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, conducted closed-door discussions with the Secretary General Francois Ngarambe and other RPF [...] | 2006-09-01 16:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID RW |
06KIGALI867 | GOR RESPONSE ON BWINDI CASE [...] (C) Ambassador met with Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga on September 6 to discuss the Bwindi Case, in particular, next steps in the wake of the U.S. court's suppression of the defendants' confessions (as requested reftel). Ambassador discussed the three possible prosecutorial options (appeal [...] | 2006-09-07 08:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM RW |
06KIGALI868 | CITY GOVERNMENT RESCINDS MOTORCYCLE BAN [...] (U) The Kigali City Council on Monday September 4 rescinded its two-week ban on motorcycle taxis. Operating under new licensing requirements, the motorcycles began to return to city streets in small numbers. Each operator is now required to register with his local cell (the next-to-lowest po [...] | 2006-09-07 08:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL RW |
06KIGALI879 | EMBASSY KIGALI 9/11 COMMEMORATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 06:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL |
06KIGALI880 | RWANDA AND MCA ELIGIBILITY [...] (C) Summary: Rwanda is deeply committed to in becoming MCA eligible and this has already resulted in positive changes in GOR attitudes and practices. The GOR understands that its relatively low ranking in the Ruling Justly categories has been the main obstacle to MCA eligibility. President [...] | 2006-09-12 06:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL MCC RW |
06KIGALI883 | RWANDA AT LOGGERHEADS WITH ICTR OVER ACCUSED LEAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOR has demanded the termination of the employment contract of an ICTR lead counsel, Callixte Gakwaya, whom the GOR has indicted on genocide charges, to remove his immunity from prosecution by Rwanda. The ICTR has not responded formally, beyond an announced need to study t [...] | 2006-09-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI887 | EMBASSY - GOR ROUNDTABLE: RULE OF LAW IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a continuing dialogue on human rights, the Mission met with senior Rwandan officials to discuss the Rule of Law in Rwanda. Discussions focused chiefly on the role of the judiciary, procedures for redressing police abuses, and the role of the Ministry of Justice in [...] | 2006-09-14 09:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
06KIGALI945 | RWANDA DECIDES NOT TO ROTATE TROOPS TO DARFUR [...] (SBU) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminali called Ambassador the afternoon of September 28 to convey the Rwandan cabinet's decision that its troops currently in Darfur will remain for three months (until December 31); they will not/not rotate before then. There may be a [...] | 2006-10-02 05:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS RW |
06KIGALI946 | BAR PRESIDENT ON JUSTICE SYSTEM IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Emboffs met September 27 with President of the Rwanda Bar Association Gatera Gashabana to discuss the state of the judicial system. Gashabana began by emphasizing the importance of the "text" of the 2003 Constitution. "Now we have a document which firmly establishes the independence o [...] | 2006-10-02 05:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
06KIGALI956 | DEATH OF AMCIT ROSAMOND CARR [...] On Friday, Ms. Rosamond Carr passed away at her residence in Gisenyi, Rwanda. She had been feeling ill for the past several weeks and had been visited regularly by a local doctor. The local physician, Dr. Erasme Sarambuye, was with her at the time of death. 2. Ms. Carr was born on August [...] | 2006-10-03 05:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC RW |
06KIGALI976 | MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED TO RWANDAN GOVERNMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-10 05:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL RW |
06KIGALI984 | ANALYST BRIEFS WORLD BANK PROGRAM ON FDLR [...] (SBU) Summary. On 6 October World Bank consultant Hans Romkema briefed diplomats and Bank employees on the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). He described the FDLR, estimated at 8,000 ) 10,000, as deeply entrenched in North and South Kivu. Romkema described FDLR leadershi [...] | 2006-10-12 11:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PREL KPKO MONUC CG RW |
06KIGALI987 | RWANDA STILL UNDECIDED ON GUATEMALA [...] (C) This is an action request for A/S Frazer. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On 13 October Charge delivered demarche (ref B) to Foreign Minister Murigande emphasizing that the USG considered the vote to be one of the most important decisions the UNGA would make this year. Murigande noted [...] | 2006-10-13 12:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC VE GT |
06KIGALI988 | RWANDA WILL VOTE FOR GUATEMALA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-14 08:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PREL RW |
06KIGALI990 | RWANDA-UGANDA JOINT PERMANENT COMMISSION MEETING A [...] (U) Summary. Ugandan and Rwandan officials held the seventh Joint Permanent Commission sessions in Kigali October 12-13. A communique pledged cooperation on a hosts of issues, including consular relations, defense, education and justice issues, crop and animal diseases, cross-border transpor [...] | 2006-10-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD RW |
07KIGALI1000 | RWANDA DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER DRC SUPPORT TO FDLR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Great Lakes Special Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera October 31 to discuss the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Sezibera expressed great concern at the ascendency of Rwandaphone extremists within the Kabila governmen [...] | 2007-11-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI1005 | Rwandan 2008 Budget Highlights [...] Summary. Minister of Finance James Musoni officially presented the 2008 budget to the Parliament on October 16. The overall budget is approximately USD 1.1 billion, a 15 increase from the previous year. Musoni predicted 6.6 growth in the economy with inflation dropping to 5 by 2008. He [...] | 2007-11-02 06:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL RW |
07KIGALI1016 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] IT Summit: Rwanda hosted the African Heads of State Connect Africa Summit October 29 and 30. Six African presidents and corporate executives attended. The summit's goal was to accelerate broadband and wireless connectivity in Africa. Dr. Hamadoun Tour, Secretary General of the International [...] | 2007-11-06 07:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI1020 | RWANDA ON NEW DRC PLANS: REALISTIC BUT WILLING [...] (C) Special Advisor for Conflict Resolution Timothy Shortley and Ambassador met separately with Great Lakes Advisor Ambassador Richard Sezibera and Foreign Minister Charles Murigande on November 5. Sezibera and Murigande both expressed disappointment with past attempts to fashion multilate [...] | 2007-11-06 17:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI1022 | RWANDA ON NEW DRC PLANS: REALISTIC BUT WILLING [...] (C) Special Advisor for Conflict Resolution Timothy Shortley and Ambassador met separately with Great Lakes Advisor Ambassador Richard Sezibera and Foreign Minister Charles Murigande on November 5. Sezibera and Murigande both expressed disappointment with past attempts to fashion multilate [...] | 2007-11-06 17:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI1024 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY CALLS ON NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Timothy Shortley and Ambassador called on National Security Advisor Emmanuel Ndahiro on October 6 to discuss enhanced US engagement on addressing negative forces in eastern DRC and ending the stand-off with Nkunda. Ndahiro pledged Rwandan [...] | 2007-11-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI1026 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY MEETS FORMER FDLR [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor Timothy Shortley met with Major General Paul Rwarakabije November 7 to discuss the FDLR's current operations and its relations with the DRC government. Rwarakabije claimed the FDLR cooperated closely with the DRC government, received materiel assistence from it, a [...] | 2007-11-08 05:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS RW |
07KIGALI1033 | UN/DPA ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. UN/DPA Assistant Secretary General Haile Menkerios met with local representatives of the P3and2 to brief them on his new mandate, recent discussions in Kinshasa, Goma, and meetings with Rwandan officials. Rwanda and the DRC needed to reach common understandings on security issu [...] | 2007-11-09 10:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS KPKO RW CG |
07KIGALI1040 | UN/DPA ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. UN/DPA Assistant Secretary General Haile Menkerios met with local representatives of the P3and2 to brief them on his new mandate, recent discussions in Kinshasa, Goma, and meetings with Rwandan officials. Rwanda and the DRC needed to reach common understandings on security issu [...] | 2007-11-14 14:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS KPKO RW CG |
07KIGALI1041 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR KERRY VISIT TO RWANDA [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the November 18-19 visit of Senator Kerry to Rwanda. Rwanda is a nation still struggling to overcome the legacy of the devastating 1994 genocide when upwards of one million Rwandans lost their lives, and the nation's infrastructure, economy and society were terribly [...] | 2007-11-15 07:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL RW |
07KIGALI1060 | MEDIA REACTION ON JOINT DRC-RWANDAN COMMUNIQUE [...] Rwandan media, taking their cue from senior GOR officials, have given positive coverage of the Nairobi Joint Communique on a common approach to end the threat posed to peace and security in the Great Lakes Region. On Monday, November 12, pro-government daily "New Times" ran under the headline [...] | 2007-11-15 13:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO PINR PINS RW CG |
07KIGALI1061 | RWANDA ON UN RAPE RESOLUTION AND FAO REFORM [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief and poloff met November 15 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Affairs Director Ben Rutsinga to discuss the U.S.-sponsored rape resolution pending before the General Assembly, and the FAO "external evaluation" demarche. Rutsinga began by categorically restati [...] | 2007-11-15 15:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA AORC FAO RW |
07KIGALI1062 | IT FOR AFRICA: RWANDA LEADS THE WAY [...] Summary. Rwanda hosted the Connect Africa Summit October 29-30. Six African presidents, 53 communications ministers, and 19 corporate executives attended the summit which was intended to accelerate broadband and wireless connectivity in Africa. Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary General of the Int [...] | 2007-11-16 05:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI1069 | RWANDA PRISON BEAT: PRISON POPULATION DOWN, ICTR [...] (C) Rwanda's prison population fell to 64,000 inmates, as the government continued its releases of persons convicted by gacaca courts, relieving the severe overcrowding that previously characterized the prison system. A well-constructed Kigali transit facility, built to receive International [...] | 2007-11-19 11:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI1075 | RWANDAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CHIEF ON EASTERN CONGO [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with National Security Service External Affairs Chief Joseph Nzabamwita, at his request, on November 19 in Kigali to discuss events in the eastern Congo and potential avenues of action against the FDLR. Nzabamwita saw an unstable balance of forces in North Kivu am [...] | 2007-11-20 15:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR RW |
07KIGALI1077 | GOMA DEMOBILIZATION OFFICER: NO EVIDENCE OF [...] (C) Embassy officers met November 10 in Kigali with Harald Hinkel, who works for the World Bank's Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) office in Goma. Hinkel, who had working in Goma since January 2005, spends his work weeks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( [...] | 2007-11-21 11:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINR PINS RW |
07KIGALI1078 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICA ENDEAVOR INITIAL [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to attend the Africa Endeavor Initial Planning Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, December 3-7, 2007. - Maj. Fred MUZIRAGUHARARA, [...] | 2007-11-21 11:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI1083 | RWANDA SUPPORTS PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-23 11:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI1085 | PRESIDENT KAGAME ON SOMALIA: INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) In his address to the Africa Caribbean Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU),meeting in Kigali on November 19, President Kagame raised the situation in Somalia and called upon the international community to "do far more than we have done so far." Noting that innocent Somalis [...] | 2007-11-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS RW |
07KIGALI1092 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (C) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: -- Former senior military officer Patrick Karegeya left Rwanda suddenly. -- Dissension continued within the Liberal Party. -- The Government of Rwanda (GOR) presented its growth and poverty reduction strategies to the donor communit [...] | 2007-11-29 16:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR ECON RW |
07KIGALI1095 | RWANDA - REPORT ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) Post submits the following information for the 2007 Report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The Government of Rwanda (GOR) continues to make progress in its efforts to implement its international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Programs and policies described i [...] | 2007-11-30 09:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM SOCI EIND ETRD RW |
07KIGALI110 | GACACA PROBLEMS, GACACA REFORMS [...] (SBU) The GOR seeks to streamline its gacaca system, lowering penalties for those convicted of genocide crimes, narrowing the jurisdiction of regular courts over genocide suspects, and reducing the numbers of judges per gacaca court. A new prisoner release is also soon to occur. By these r [...] | 2007-02-05 06:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI1104 | RWANDA ON IRAN AND ISRAEL DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 14:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNGA RW IR IS |
07KIGALI1110 | AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN KIGALI: NEEDED BUT ELUSIVE [...] Summary. The housing industry in Rwanda is fragmented and in need of assistance. Individuals are currently allocated plots and build according to their convenience, taste and capacity, irrespective of the area. The results are environmentally, aesthetically, and logistically problematic for [...] | 2007-12-10 10:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI1112 | INFORMATION ON TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] (U) Embassy Kigali submits the following information on our Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO: TFCO: Richard Kaminski Title: Chief, Political/Economic Section Phone: 250 505 601 x3304 Unclassified email: KaminskiRM@state.gov SIPDIS Classified email: Kaminski [...] | 2007-12-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN RW |
07KIGALI1113 | "BETTER THAN PRISON" - RWANDA'S POST-GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Evariste Bizimana, Executive Secretary for the Rwandan Travaux d'Interet General (TIG) National Committee, discussed the state of the community service program with emboffs on December 4. Approximately 45,000 people - referred to as "TIGists" - have been registered by the TIG [...] | 2007-12-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI1114 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] EU Increases Aid: The European Union (EU) Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel announced that the EU will increase its aid to Rwanda by 30 percent to USD 313 over the next five years. Michel announced that the EU considers Rwanda one of the three best performers amo [...] | 2007-12-10 15:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI1115 | SUMMARY OF G/TIP SMALL GRANTS PROJECT OUTCOMES [...] (U) Embassy Kigali welcomed the opportunity to use FY 2005 Economic Support Funds (ESF) for anti-trafficking in persons projects, and submits the following summary of project outcomes. (Note: Final narrative project reports have been submitted to G/TIP via e-mail. End note.) --------------- [...] | 2007-12-11 10:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI1119 | SPORTS ENVOY REQUEST [...] Post welcomes the possibility of participating in the ECA sports program in FY08 and is pleased to submit this request for a Sports Envoy in field of basketball. With an enthusiastic audience for the program, a low crime rate, excellent climate, and meticulously clean environment, post believ [...] | 2007-12-14 10:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC IS JO KPAO LE RW |
07KIGALI1120 | DRC REFUGEES TO RWANDA - UNHCR PREPARING FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Kigali Representative Annette Nyekan and External Relations Officer Christina Alfirev met with Poloff recently to discuss current movements of refugees to Rwanda from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Refugee flows to Rwanda have slowed recently, despite the [...] | 2007-12-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM RW |
07KIGALI1130 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) commander scheduled to receive ACOTA Peace Support Training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- [...] | 2007-12-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI1131 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to receive IMET Training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Dates --------- ---------- ---- --- -------------- [...] | 2007-12-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI1132 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to receive IMET Training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- TUYISABE Emmanuel Lt. [...] | 2007-12-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI1145 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] Loans: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Germany's KfW Banking Group have signed a deal with the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) to invest USD12 million to rehabilitate, expand and finance a 30-year lease of the Kigali Serena and the Lake Kivu Serena hotels. "IFC [...] | 2007-12-27 09:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI1146 | LIFE MORE DIFFICULT FOR LOW-INCOME RWANDANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Inflation in Rwanda is officially reported at under 10 percent but the reality behind the numbers is much more serious for low-income Rwandans, the majority of the population. Certain food prices have increased as much as 350 percent and virtually none less than 10 percent ov [...] | 2007-12-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI138 | RWANDA: AFRICA COMMAND, UNSC RESOLUTION 1737 ON [...] (SBU) On February 8, Mission presented talking points on the new Africa Command, and on UN Security Council Resolution 1737, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for IO and the Americas Ben Rutsinga. Rutsinga welcomed the announcement of the Africa Command. He commented that, given Rwanda [...] | 2007-02-11 13:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP RW |
07KIGALI142 | GOR INVESTIGATING ATTACK ON JOURNALIST [...] (SBU) Summary. Rwandan police are investigating a 9 Feb attack on Jean Bosco Gasasira, chief editor of independent Kinyarwanda-language newspaper "Umuvugizi." Gasisira was attacked by three men with tire irons outside a bar in Kigali, he sustained serious injuries to his leg, arm and head. B [...] | 2007-02-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI146 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS LEAHY MESSAGE TO FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary. On 12 Feb Ambassador Arietti met with Foreign Minister Murigande to deliver demarche per reftel. This meeting was a follow up to a 2 Feb meeting with Minister of State for Cooperation Rosemary Museminali where Ambassador first formally informed MINAFET that the USG had derogatory [...] | 2007-02-14 12:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PGOV ASEC SU RW |
07KIGALI152 | FDLR POLITICAL OPERATIVES IN RWANDA [...] (C) Summary. GOR sources confirm recent reports of activity in Rwanda by political operatives of the exiled Forces Democratique de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). FDLR operatives have been arrested both inside the country, and at its borders. These incidents reflect episodic attempts by the [...] | 2007-02-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RW |
07KIGALI167 | GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA RELEASES PRISONERS [...] (U) In fulfillment of a January cabinet decision, on February 19 the Rwandan government began the release of over 9,000 prisoners, approximately 8,000 suspected genocidaires (those who participated in the 1994 genocide) and about 1,000 ordinary criminals already convicted and serving their sen [...] | 2007-02-21 06:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI168 | GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA RELEASES PRISONERS [...] (U) In fulfillment of a January cabinet decision, on February 19 the Rwandan government began the release of over 9,000 prisoners, approximately 8,000 suspected genocidaires (those who participated in the 1994 genocide) and about 1,000 ordinary criminals already convicted and serving their sen [...] | 2007-02-21 06:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI176 | RWANDA OVERVIEW FOR GENERAL WARD VISIT [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy Commander, Headquarters, US European Command, General William E. Ward. Rwanda is a nation still struggling to overcome the legacy of the devastating 1994 genocide, and reconcile populations at odds for most of Rwanda's modern history. Upwards of [...] | 2007-02-22 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL RW |
07KIGALI178 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TWO LEAHY ISSUES WITH FOREIGN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 4. Due to time constraints in the case of BG Muganga, post requests a response from Department no later than opening of business (Washington time) 23 Feb. 2. (C) On 22 Feb Ambassador Arietti met with Foreign Minister Murigande to receive G [...] | 2007-02-22 17:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC MOPS AU SU RW |
07KIGALI183 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to receive IMET training in the U.S. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date ---- [...] | 2007-02-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI185 | RWANDA SCENESETTER FOR A/S POWELL [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Dina SIPDIS Powell. Rwanda is a nation still struggling to overcome the legacy of the devastating 1994 genocide, and reconcile populations at odds for most of Rwanda's modern history. [...] | 2007-02-26 13:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL RW |
07KIGALI193 | Methane Development: Commercial Dispute Roils Lake Kivu [...] SUMMARY. Hopes of resolving Rwanda's acute energy crisis through the development of methane gas in Lake Kivu continues to be frustrated; this time by disputes between the GOR and Dane Associates. Accusations fly from both sides, but the result is that a solution to the unreliable, inadequate, [...] | 2007-02-27 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW CG |
07KIGALI194 | RWANDA: NEXT STEPS ON BURUNDI [...] (C) Mission delivered reftel demarche on February 27 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Amandin Rugira. Rugira agreed that events in Burundi were at a sensitive juncture, and said that the GOR supported the recent changes in the composition of the CNDD-FDD and the GOR. Former [...] | 2007-02-28 06:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI195 | RWANDA: CONGOLESE JOURNALIST ARRESTED [...] (SBU) Deputy Prosecutor General Alphonse Hitiyaremye confirmed to polchief on February 27 the recent arrest of Congolese citizen Idesbald Byabuze. Byabuze, reportedly a professor at the Bakuvu Catholic University, as well as the publisher of a Bakuvu newspaper, the Mashariki News, is in cus [...] | 2007-02-28 06:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI209 | OFFICE OF AUDITOR GENERAL ON USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS [...] (U) The Auditor General sees recurring failings in use of public funds by some government offices, to be rectified by training, appointment of appropriate oversight officials, the production of consolidated financial statements by the Ministry of Finance, and a new Accountancy law. Assistance [...] | 2007-03-01 15:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI210 | JOURNALIST FREED BY GACACA AUTHORITIES [...] (U) Summary. On July 23 Jean Leonard Rugambag , ajournalist for the Kinyarwand fortnight newspaper 'Umura,' was charged with murdering a bank official in his home district during the genocide, was freed after 11 months in detention. Rugambage had been formally charged with murder one month [...] | 2007-03-01 15:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI212 | RWANDA TIP DRAFT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 16:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF ELAB ASEC KFRD SMIG KWMN PHUM KCRM RW |
07KIGALI217 | RWANDA: REPEAL OF ARMS NOTIFICATION, CHILD [...] (C) Foreign Minister Charles Murigande requested Ambassador Arietti meet with him on March 2. In his office, Murigande sought U.S. support for repeal of the notification provision of UNSC resolution 1011 of 1995, which lifted the arms embargo on Rwanda, but left in place a notification pro [...] | 2007-03-05 05:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF RW |
07KIGALI218 | RWANDA: RECENT CHINA ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) The Chinese and Rwandan governments conduct their long-standing and productive relations on a number of levels. Last year the Chinese Minister of Cooperation and a senior Communist party official visited Kigali in August, under the aegis of the Fifth Rwanda-China Joint Committee on Econ [...] | 2007-03-05 05:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI219 | PLEASE DISREGARD KIGALI 210 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 05:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO RW |
07KIGALI238 | NO CASULTIES AFTER SALVO FIRED FROM DRC INTO RWANDA [...] (U) Summary. At approximately 21h00 local time on 3 March a barrage of direct and indirect fire was directed from North Kivu into a unoccupied area in Northwest Rwanda by an unknown unit suspected to be from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). No casualties were reported [...] | 2007-03-07 13:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL MONUC KPKO CG RW |
07KIGALI250 | RWANDA UPDATE FOR 2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] SUMMARY. In accordance with reftel, the following provides an update for the 2007 President's Report on AGOA for Rwanda. END SUMMARY. 2. Market Economy: The government has established important oversight for managing the economic health of the country, including tax collection, banking, [...] | 2007-03-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD RW |
07KIGALI281 | KAGAME ON TRIPARTITE-PLUS, DARFUR, AND REFUGEE [...] (C) On March 16 AF DAS James Swan advised President Kagame on the principal successes of the just-completed Tripartite Plus conference, detailing progress on "active approaches" toward eliminating Negative Forces, and a common "Wanted List" to be circulated among the four nations by means of [...] | 2007-03-19 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
07KIGALI285 | MONUC COOPERATION WITH ICTR [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On the margins of the Tripartite Plus meetings in Kigali March 15-16, ICTR Chief Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow met with SRSG for the DRC William Lacy Swing to discuss MONUC assistance to the ICTR, specifically the location of suspe [...] | 2007-03-21 07:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC RW |
07KIGALI289 | CONGOLESE JOURNALIST RELEASED, EXPELLED [...] (SBU) On March 21, Rwandan authorities released from custody Congolese journalist Idesbald Byabuze, in detention for approximately a month, and under investigation for a 2005 article criticizing the alleged Tutsi domination of the Hutu majority in Rwanda (reftel). At the central "1930" prison [...] | 2007-03-21 15:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI291 | UGANDA HANDS RWANDA 10 MEMBERS OF DISSIDENT GROUP [...] (C) Summary. On March 12 Ugandan security forces transferred to Rwandan authorities ten members of the dissident organization RPR (Rassemblement du Peuple Rwandais). These individuals are now in the custody of military investigators, who are determining their personal identity and status wit [...] | 2007-03-21 16:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
07KIGALI295 | POWELL/MCCORMICK DELEGATION MEETS PRESIDENT [...] On Tuesday, March 6, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, David McCormick and Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Dina Habib Powell met President Kagame. The duo was accompanied by members of their traveling party and Ambassador Arietti. [...] | 2007-03-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KPAO PREL SCUL RW |
07KIGALI296 | WAR CRIMES AMBASSADOR VISITS RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador at large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson visited Rwanda March 10-14, meeting with senior GOR officials, diplomatic missions, ICTR officers, and members of the human rights community. He also visited the Mpanga prison being readied for the potential reception [...] | 2007-03-22 15:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI303 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) officer LtCol Ruvovico Mugisha. LtCol Mugisha is the Commanding Officer of the RDF's 51st Battalion, 301st Brigade, 4th Division [...] | 2007-03-26 13:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MASS MARR RW |
07KIGALI306 | GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN SW RWANDA VANDALIZED [...] (U) Summary. In early morning on 23 March a hand grenade was used to vandalize a Genocide Memorial Site near the border town of Cyangugu. The unidentified perpetrators were driven off by GOR security forces without causing extensive damage to the site. Few additional facts are available b [...] | 2007-03-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RW |
07KIGALI313 | PRESIDENT OF MILITARY COURT ON RECORDS, [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 22 DCM and polchief met with Major General Patrick Nyamvumba, President of the Military High Court, to discuss the military justice system and prospects for access to records. Nyamvumba described a system grounded in the civilian criminal code and procedure, with car [...] | 2007-03-29 16:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS RW |
07KIGALI324 | SUCCESSFUL TRIPARTITE PLUS HELD IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOR hosted the U.S. facilitated Tripartite Plus Joint Commission (TPJC) and sub-commission meetings in Kigali 14-16 March. Delegations from the DRC, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda took part in the diplomatic and defense and security sub-commission meetings on 14 March in order [...] | 2007-04-03 10:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MONUC KPKO RW |
07KIGALI330 | USG POSITION ON MUPUTO PLAN OF ACTION DELIVERED TO [...] (C) On 2 May Charge Michael Thurston, Health and Human Services Global Health Officer Dr. Samuel Adeniyi-Jones and PRM Program Officer Perlita Muiruri communicated the USG position (per reftel) on the Maputo Plan of Action (MPA) to Rwandan Minister of Health Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo. [...] | 2007-04-03 13:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL SOCI AU RW |
07KIGALI339 | Kigali delivers non-paper on Iran's Defense Industries [...] In response to reftel, post delivered the nonpaper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 2, 2007. THURSTON [...] | 2007-04-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR RW |
07KIGALI342 | FORMER PRESIDENT BIZIMUNGU RELEASED FROM PRISON [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Rwanda released former President Pasteur Bizimungu from prison on April 6. This release apparently occurred without prior notice to the public and without condition. Coming thirteen years to the day from the start of the 1994 genocide, and on Good Friday, thi [...] | 2007-04-06 14:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR RW |
07KIGALI358 | WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO) DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 09:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL TPHY WMO RW |
07KIGALI36 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING INFORMATION FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, plese see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) officers scheduled to receive in-country African Contingency Operations Training Assistance (ACOTA) training and repo [...] | 2007-01-17 12:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI373 | DEMARCHE ON REMOVAL OF 14TH BATTALION COMMANDER [...] (C) Per reftel dated March 22, the Embassy sent Note 040 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 23, quoted in part as follows: "The United States requests that the Government of Rwanda advise it of the name of the replacement commander of the 14th battalion." In this note the Embassy re [...] | 2007-04-18 13:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PHUM RW |
07KIGALI379 | RWANDAN DEFENSE FORCES TO CHANGE COMMANDER OF THE [...] (SBU) On 20 April, the Rwandan Ministry of Defense notified post that the new Battalion Commander for the 14th Battalion will be Major James Safari. The change was made in order to comply with USG's notification (ref B) that no U.S. support could be provided to the 14th if LtCol Goodman Ruzib [...] | 2007-04-20 12:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MARR MASS RW |
07KIGALI388 | JOURNALIST PLEADS GUILTY TO DIVISIONISM, RECEIVES [...] (SBU) On Friday, April 20, Agnes Nkusi-Uwimana, director of the Kinyarwanda-language newspaper "Umurabyo," received a one year jail term in a Kigali court, having on April 3 pleaded guilty to various charges including divisionism, defamation, and passing a bad check. Nkusi had been arrested [...] | 2007-04-24 15:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI391 | RWANDA PETITIONS THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE [...] (U) Rwanda on April 18 petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the November 2006 issuance of arrest warrants by French judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere against nine senior Rwandan officials. These officials, according to an investigation conducted by Bruguiere, were allegedly [...] | 2007-04-25 13:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS RW |
07KIGALI399 | RWANDA TIP PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP MANAGED ESF AND [...] This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. Summary. Rwanda is a country attempting to focus on child prositution and other forms of trafficking in persons. Due in part to post's regular pressure on the GOR to address the problem, on 23 April the Rwandan National Police (RNP) su [...] | 2007-04-27 11:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG RW |
07KIGALI400 | ONE UN PROGRAM IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) The One UN program in Rwanda has taken its first organizational steps. On February 27 and 28, the UN organized a retreat, the first day consisting of UN agencies in Rwanda discussing the prospective program, and the second day including donor governments and Rwandan officials. A resul [...] | 2007-04-27 11:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL EAID RW |
07KIGALI401 | PARTICIPATION IN THE IRAQ COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-30 16:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS RW |
07KIGALI405 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The High Court recently issued a temporary injunction against Dane Associates, dissolving the Board of Directors of Kibuye Power (KP1) Limited and preventing the company from being party to methane extraction activities at Lake Kivu. Dane has been embroiled in a breach of contract dispute wit [...] | 2007-05-02 06:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI406 | AMIS NON-PAYMENT JEOPARDIZES RWANDAN INVOLVEMENT [...] (U) The African Union continues to owe the GOR approximately USD 20 million, which amounts to 0.7% of GDP, for funds expended in the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). 2. (SBU) The IMF, during the latest Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) mission to Rwanda, advised the GOR to con [...] | 2007-05-02 09:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN MOPS PGOV PREL RW |
07KIGALI412 | RWANDA: TRIPARTITE PLUS DEFENSE CHIEFS MEETING [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Ministry of Defense and armed forces officials on May 2 to discuss the recent chiefs of defense staff meeting in Bujumbura (Reftel). Ministry Secretary General Zac Nsenga, Generals Rutatina and SIPDIS Musemakweli, RDF Spokesman Rutaremara and Military Prosecutor [...] | 2007-05-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RW |
07KIGALI42 | Rwanda 2007 Investment Climate Statement [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Rwanda: OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------ The GOR is making progress economically as it recognizes that the private sector is an essential engine of development. The government [...] | 2007-01-18 15:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV BFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV RW |
07KIGALI443 | KIGALI SCIENCE FELLOW REQUEST [...] In response to reftel and previous communication between Assistant Secretary Claudia McMurray and Minister Romain Murenzi, the following details four possible workplans for a Science Fellow. 2. In Rwanda, the Science Fellow would work in Minister Murenzi's Office, in the Office of the Presid [...] | 2007-05-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM KN ECON IR RW |
07KIGALI446 | RWANDA ON BELARUS CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 09:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI454 | REPORTS OF EXTRA-JUDICAL KILLINGS BY THE RWANDAN [...] (C) Summary. Dutch colleagues, the local representative of Human Rights Watch, and the Executive Secretary of LIPRODHOR (Rwanda's most well-known human rights organization) report 8 to 10 incidents of extrajudicial killings by Rwandan police since the new year, mostly in April. The major [...] | 2007-05-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI456 | RWANDA TO VOTE FOR SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 10:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI461 | OPIC TO ADDRESS AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN KIGALI [...] SUMMARY. The City of Kigali, in conjunction with the U.S. Embassy, hosted an affordable housing workshop with subsequent side meetings to explore affordable housing issues in Kigali. With the goals of assisting the City of Kigali to address their housing challenges and to find opportunities f [...] | 2007-05-16 05:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD EAID ECON PREL MCAP RW |
07KIGALI476 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human right vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to receive IMET training in the U.S. Post has discovered no derogatory information on the nominees. [...] | 2007-05-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI483 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to receive IMET training in the U.S. Page Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date - [...] | 2007-05-18 14:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI486 | RWANDA: REINFORCING UN COMMAND OF HYBRID FORCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 08:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO RW |
07KIGALI49 | NEWSPAPER DIRECTOR ARRESTED, ARRAIGNED ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On Friday, January 19, Agnes Nkusi-Uwimana, director of the Kinyarwanda-language newspaper, "Umurabyo" was arraigned on charges of divisionism and sectarianism stemming from recent articles in the paper that appeared to minimize the genocide or advance the notion of a double gen [...] | 2007-01-22 15:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI493 | RWANDA HOSTS EAST AFRICA BROADBAND CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY. The GOR, in conjunction with the U.S. government, hosted an East African Broadband workshop in Kigali from May 8-10 to produce a roadmap for expanding broadband connectivity in East Africa. 2. President Kagame opened a two-day East African Broadband workshop jointly hosted by the [...] | 2007-05-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ECPS PGOV EINV ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI495 | RWANDA ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 15:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI496 | GENOCIDE ADJUDICATIONS RISING RAPIDLY; MORE [...] (SBU) Gacaca courts trying genocide suspects have greatly increased their rate of adjudication, following adoption of the new genocide statute on March 1. As of mid-May, gacaca courts have processed nearly 400,000 cases, approximately half the existing caseload. Judicial authorities are rep [...] | 2007-05-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI519 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to receive IMET training in the U.S. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date ------ [...] | 2007-05-29 12:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI522 | KAGAME ON NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 13:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN RW |
07KIGALI523 | EMBASSY ACTION ON EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS; GOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador on May 17 presented the Rwandan National Police Commissioner with a list of ten police shootings of "escaping" prisoners (garnered from local human rights group LIPROHDOR -- see reftel),asking for an explanation of the shootings. A majority of the cases involved the arrest o [...] | 2007-05-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI524 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to receive IMET training in the U.S. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date ------ [...] | 2007-05-30 16:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI529 | KAGAME VISIT TO CHINA [...] (U) Summary. President Paul Kagame paid a five day visit to China May 14-19, visiting Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The two governments signed several accords, including debt cancellation, infrastructure development, expanded trade links, and cultural exchanges. Kagame also addressed th [...] | 2007-06-04 07:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL RW |
07KIGALI530 | PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CONVICTED BY [...] (SBU) Summary. Francois Byuma, a local human rights activist, received a nineteen year sentence from a Kigali gacaca court on May 27 for his participation in attacks on a Tutsi citizen during the 1994 genocide. Byuma, head of the human rights organization Turengere Abana (Protect Our Child [...] | 2007-06-04 08:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI546 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The Global Fund has pledged USD 59 million over the next five years to fight HIV/AIDS. The project will emphasize prevention, expanded access to anti-retroviral treatment, improved care, support of orphans and people living with AIDS, and improved linkage between tuberculosis and HIV services. [...] | 2007-06-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI547 | LOCAL UNHCR OFFICE ON RECRUITMENT FROM RWANDAN [...] (C) Summary. Senior Protection Officer at the UNHCR office in Kigali reports 10 recent incidents of recruitment of child and adult combatants from refugee camps in Rwanda by agents by General Laurent Nkunda. The GOR denies any involvement, and says it is making efforts to prevent transit t [...] | 2007-06-08 09:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI555 | RWANDA SUPPORTS TWO BATTALION TRANSFER TO UN HEAVY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-13 10:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO RW |
07KIGALI562 | GOVERNMENT CLOSES INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER [...] (SBU) On June 6, Information Minister Laurent Nkusi canceled the registration to publish he had issued 20 days earlier to the Weekly Post, a new English-language publication. This cancellation occurred just days after the first issue of the Weekly post had appeared. The minister gave no re [...] | 2007-06-15 11:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI563 | RWANDA COMMITS TO FURTHER JUSTICE SECTOR REFORMS [...] (U) Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama chaired a June 8 presentation of results from a two day Justice Sector retreat that included 12 justice sector institutions, among them the Ministry of Justice, the Prison Service, the Prosecution Service, the National Gacaca Service, the Military Cou [...] | 2007-06-15 11:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI573 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR DIILS-SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following person scheduled to receive DIILS-sponsored training in the U.S. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date --------- ---------- ---- [...] | 2007-06-18 15:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI574 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following personnel nominated for the IMET Combat Engineer Course: Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date --------- ---------- ---- [...] | 2007-06-18 15:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI589 | THE FDLR -- READY TO FOLD IF PUSHED HARD ENOUGH? [...] (C) Summary. In a two-hour briefing before senior GOR military and civilian officials and representatives of the local diplomatic corps, MDRP researchers (hired by the Multi-lateral Demobilization and Reintegration Program) presented detailed information and analysis based upon months of fi [...] | 2007-06-25 07:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI592 | CHALLENGES IN THE RWANDAN COFFEE SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY. RwandEx, a coffee export company recently privatized to a group of Belgian investors who have been involved in the company since its inception in 1964, is having an increasingly confrontational relationship with the GOR. Coupled with the relatively low coffee harvest season, thes [...] | 2007-06-25 11:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EINV ETRD BTIO RW |
07KIGALI599 | RWANDA PRISON CONDITIONS: WORSENING STEADILY AS [...] (C) Polchief and visiting PRM officer called upon International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Chief Pierre Wettach on June 26 to discuss prison conditions in Rwanda. Wettach described a worsening situation in the nation's 16 prisons, due exclusively to the ever-increasing number of geno [...] | 2007-06-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI6 | RWANDA: OVERSEAS OPPOSITION PARTIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Opposition political parties based outside Rwanda appear fractured and ineffectual, composed of disparate groupings of disaffected former officials or relatively unknown politicians nursing various grievances against the present government. What unites them is a visceral disl [...] | 2007-01-04 08:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR RW |
07KIGALI610 | RWANDAN CONTRIBUTION TO HYBRID OPERATION IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-02 11:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PKPO UNSC RW |
07KIGALI611 | GOR ON GACACA, LEGAL CASES INVOLVING FRANCE, EAST [...] (U) Summary. The GOR briefed the diplomatic community on June 28, announcing several initiatives to alleviate crowded prison conditions, hailing Rwanda's entry into the East African Community (EAC),noting efforts to secure return of a genocide suspect from France, and denying reports of rec [...] | 2007-07-02 11:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI633 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 15:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI634 | ANALYSIS OF RISK OF TORTURE OF BWINDI DEFENDANTS [...] (C) Summary. Post submits this analysis of the risk of torture of the three Bwindi defendants if returned to Rwanda for trial, for use in Department deliberations. Post finds that it is not/not "more likely than not" that these three individuals would be subject to torture if so returned. [...] | 2007-07-09 19:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI639 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The British Department for International Development (DFID) approved approximately USD 70 million for direct budget support to Rwanda for 2007. This is part of the British government's increased commitment to support the GOR in poverty reduction, maintaining peace, stability and improving fina [...] | 2007-07-10 11:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI644 | IOM DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY [...] (U) On Friday, July 6 poloffs met with Ben Rutsinga, IO Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche on Ambassador Swing's candidacy for IOM Director General. While Rutsinga acknowledged Ambassador Swing's many contributions to peace in the DRC, and expressed gene [...] | 2007-07-10 14:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREF PREL SMIG RW |
07KIGALI645 | ICTR SEES "NO VALUE" IN COMMUNICATIONS FROM PAUL [...] (U) Embassy transmits for Department the following statement issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda regarding communications with Paul Rusesabagina. 2. (U) Begin text: Statement Office of the Prosecutor 29 June 2007 Mr. Paul Rusesabagina did write to the ICTR Pro [...] | 2007-07-11 06:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI651 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend Military HIV/AIDS training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date ----- [...] | 2007-07-12 11:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI656 | DEMARCHE ON OCTOBER 1 AU/UN HYBRID FORCE UNSCR [...] (U) On Monday, July 16 Ambassador met with Rosemary Museminali, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, to deliver reftel demarche on a UN Security Council resolution that sets an October 1 date for the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to transition to the UN/AU [...] | 2007-07-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO SU RW |
07KIGALI66 | Serena Hotels helps validate the Rwandan potential [...] SUMMARY. The Serena Group signed a 30-year concession to manage the two largest Rwandan hotels -- the Kigali InterContinental Hotel and the Kivu Sun Hotel, beginning February 1 2007. The hotels will be relaunched following an extensive refurbishment under Serena branding, marking another attem [...] | 2007-01-24 05:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV BFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV RW |
07KIGALI668 | RWANDA: FEAR OF MILITARY SOLUTION TO KIVU CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande on July 20 to discuss GOR concerns about the possibility of a military solution to the situation in the Kivus. Murigande expressed GOR worries that, if a military solution is pursued, DRC President Kabila will be unabl [...] | 2007-07-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI669 | RWANDA: FEAR OF MILITARY SOLUTION TO KIVU CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande on July 20 to discuss GOR concerns about the possibility of a military solution to the situation in the Kivus. Murigande expressed GOR worries that, if a military solution is pursued, DRC President Kabila will be unabl [...] | 2007-07-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI675 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date --------- ------- [...] | 2007-07-27 07:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI676 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GOLDEN SPEAR SEMINAR [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date --------- --- [...] | 2007-07-27 07:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI680 | 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES - RWANDA [...] SUMMARY. In accordance with reftel, the following updates the single existing investment dispute involving an American investor in Rwanda. END SUMMARY. 2. The United States Government is aware of one (1) claim of a United States person that is outstanding against the Government of Rwanda (G [...] | 2007-07-30 15:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV CACS RW |
07KIGALI681 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) commander scheduled to receive staff training (CPX) as part of ACOTA Peace Support Training. Last Name First Name Ra [...] | 2007-07-31 06:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI700 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] Japan promised Rwanda USD 1,509,150 to boost economic development and poverty eradication, most specifically directed towards the agricultural sector. The World Bank will administer both grants from the Japanese government under its Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD). The gran [...] | 2007-08-03 10:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI728 | GRANTS ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC [...] Summary. Post welcomes the Department's solicitation of information on the administrative burden of administering grants and the level of support being provided by ICASS service providers for PD operations in the field. PAS enjoys strong support at post from ICASS service providers; those ga [...] | 2007-08-14 15:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KICA KPAO OIIP AMGT |
07KIGALI73 | RWANDA WILL NOT SEND TROOPS TO SOMALIA [...] (C) On 24 January State Minister for Cooperation Rosemary Museminali told Ambassador that while the GOR might be willing to support the African Union (AU) mission to Somalia with training or civilian police (civpol) support, it is "disinclined" to send Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) soldiers. A [...] | 2007-01-24 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL UNSC RW ET KE |
07KIGALI737 | Methane Development Continues Despite Disputes [...] SUMMARY. Lake Kivu still contains hope for Rwanda to solve one of the biggest obstacles to its development - the unreliability and high cost of energy in the country. The GOR partnership and concession granted to Dane Associates has been dissolved, but several other companies have appeared to [...] | 2007-08-17 08:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW CG |
07KIGALI743 | BUSINESSMEN, GENERALS, AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS: [...] (SBU) Summary. The recent case of prominent local businessman Assinapol Rwigara, sought by police after a construction-site accident, is an object lesson in Rwandan law enforcement in action, and the rumor-mill that attends the arrest of any public personality. Officials extended the opera [...] | 2007-08-20 05:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI746 | RWANDA: LEVELING THE POLITICAL PLAYING FIELD? [...] (SBU) Summary. With the advent of a new law on political parties on June 1, the two largest independent parties have begun organizational efforts at the grassroots level, and report renewed interest among average Rwandans in party politics. With just over a year to the 2008 parliamentary e [...] | 2007-08-20 15:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI747 | TWO ARRESTED GENERALS RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (SBU) Following two same-day sessions of a military court in Kigali, the presiding judge released Generals Frank Rusegara and Sam Kanyemera Kaka on bail on August 17. The court scheduled their next court session set for September 6. Both men stand accused of interfering with police officer [...] | 2007-08-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI754 | FOREIGN INVESTORS IN RWANDA: PERFORM OR GET OUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Accepting an offer they claim they could not refuse, the largest American investors in Rwanda sold their telecommunications company to the Government of Rwanda (GOR) on August 1. This represents the fourth time in the past year that the GOR has either nationalized a private c [...] | 2007-08-22 14:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP BTIO ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RW |
07KIGALI755 | KIVUS STRATEGY DEMARCHE: RWANDA IN AGREEMENT [...] (C) On August 21, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on the USG Kivus strategy to Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande. Ambassador asked that the GOR: 1) reiterate its previously declared opposition to any form of recruitment within Rwanda by General Nkunda and work to prevent s [...] | 2007-08-22 16:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI758 | RWANDA SNAPSHOT - CIVIL SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Members of political parties, NGOs, and religious organizations in Rwanda described a challenging environment in a series of recent meetings in which resources are scarce and political will to reform on the part of the government of Rwanda (GOR) is insufficient to overcome conti [...] | 2007-08-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI759 | RWANDA - PRISONS, JUSTICE SECTOR REFORMS [...] (C) Embassy and visiting DRL officers met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Office Pierre Wattach (protect) on July 10 to discuss prison conditions in Rwanda. Wattach gave a generally positive report, despite identifying some lingering problem areas. The serious ov [...] | 2007-08-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI762 | ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RWANDAN DEPUTY DARFUR [...] (C) A Brussels-based opposition group, FDU-Inkingi, recently accused Rwandan Major General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake - the newly appointed Deputy Commander of the UN-AU Hybrid Force in Darfur - of participation in various massacres and murders of political opponents in the years just before and [...] | 2007-08-24 12:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI765 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CCMR SEMINAR [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend a Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) training seminar. Last Name First Name Ran [...] | 2007-08-27 15:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI77 | RWANDA DOES NOT SUPPORT SUDAN FOR AU CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry Rosemary Museminali told Ambassador January 24 that Rwanda agrees that it would be "bad for the AU and Africa" if Sudan were selected for the AU chairmanship. Instead, Rwanda would work for a postponement of Sudan's candidacy for another year. Mus [...] | 2007-01-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI777 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Date --------- ---------- [...] | 2007-08-30 19:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI792 | AMBASSADOR SEZIBERA ON FOREIGN MINISTER TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Great Lakes Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera on September 6 to discuss the recent meeting in Kinshasa between the Rwandan and Congolese Foreign Ministers (which Sezibera attended). Sezibera described the interactions as "about what we expected," and said th [...] | 2007-09-06 15:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI793 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON MEETING IN KINSHASA [...] (SBU) On September 7 Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande briefed the local diplomatic corps on his recent visit to Kinshasa to discuss events in the Kivus with his Congolese counterpart. Murigande expressed satisfaction with the several joint mechanisms announced in the communique is [...] | 2007-09-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI796 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the U.S. Mission, launched a USD 10 million extensive anti-malaria Indoor Residential Spraying (IRS) campaign for Kigali on August 10. The goal of the campaign is to reduce malaria-related mortality by 50 percent among those in most vulnerable categ [...] | 2007-09-10 05:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI822 | GOR TOUGHENS STANCE AGAINST "IRRESPONSIBLE" [...] (C) Summary. A panel of Government of Rwanda (GOR) officials, including four Ministers, on September 9 used a weekly call-in program broadcast by state-owned TV Rwanda and Radio Rwanda to launch verbal attacks against certain members of Rwanda's independent media, who they accused of cooperat [...] | 2007-09-17 08:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
07KIGALI83 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING INFORMATION FOR SENIOR LEADER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following GOR officials nominated to attend the Senior Leadership Seminar (SLS) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 25 Feb - 9 MAR 2007: -- Mr. Ben Balthazar Rutsi [...] | 2007-01-29 09:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PHUM RW |
07KIGALI849 | TWO GENERALS ACQUITTED OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE [...] (SBU) On September 21, a military court acquitted Generals Frank Rusegara and Sam Kanyemera Kaka of obstruction of justice charges. Rusegara, the head of a military training school, and Kaka, a retired officer now serving as a member of parliament for the ruling RPF, had been granted bail o [...] | 2007-09-25 08:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI858 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) personnel scheduled to attend Air Traffic Controller training on November 7: Last Name First Name Rank DOB - [...] | 2007-09-28 10:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI859 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) commander scheduled to receive ACOTA Peace Support Training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ------- [...] | 2007-09-28 11:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI865 | RWANDA'S LIBERAL PARTY IN TURMOIL [...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party (PL) leadership has been embroiled in a continuing leadership dispute, the losing faction in hotly contested national congress elections alleging corruption and general misuse of party funds by the winning side. First suspended by party leadership, five senior p [...] | 2007-10-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI882 | RWANDA: CREDIBLE VOICES IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 13:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI883 | SPEAKER PROGRAM ON POLITICAL MARKETING RESONATES [...] Summary. University of Vermont Professor Edward McMahon completed on Saturday, September 29 a highly successful IIP speaker program on the role of political parties in a democratic society. McMahon's program included individual calls on each of the nine political parties represented in Rwanda [...] | 2007-10-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PHUM RW |
07KIGALI899 | FDLR FIRES INTO AND/OR FROM RWANDA [...] (C) According to Rwandan military sources, late on the evening of September 30, a small force of suspected Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) soldiers fired several hundred machine gun rounds into Rwanda from positions on the Congolese side of the border, in a remote area [...] | 2007-10-04 15:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PINR PREF MOPS RW |
07KIGALI902 | RWANDA 2007 SUBMISSION FOR TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] Post provides the following responses to reftel request for information on textile and apparel production in Rwanda. 2. Requested Information -- Total industrial production in USD: 2006: USD 363 million. 2007 estimate: not available. -- Total textiles and apparel production in USD: [...] | 2007-10-05 06:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTEX RW |
07KIGALI915 | GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES ON BWINDI DEFENDANTS [...] (SBU) Embassy has reviewed the September 17 letter from Department of Homeland Security ICE A/S Julie Myers to A/S Frazer, detailing the immigration judge's decision in regard to one of the three Bwindi defendants. In her letter, A/S Myers requested the Department of State to offer a "prefer [...] | 2007-10-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS RW |
07KIGALI916 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GOLDEN SPEAR CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen General Marcel GATSINZI, Minister of Defense (DOB: 01/09/1948),scheduled to attend the Golden Spear conference, November 7 and 8, 2007. 3. (SBU) Post has disc [...] | 2007-10-10 15:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI917 | 2200 RWANDANS RETURN FROM UGANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. Post has confirmed recent press reports of the repatriation of approximately 2200 Rwandans who had settled in the Kibati region of Uganda, near the Tanzanian border. Most press accounts depicted forced movement on little notice although the pro-government New Times offered ac [...] | 2007-10-11 07:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI933 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The Dutch government, through the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC),is supporting the Rwanda Flower Farmers Association. In an attempt to increase flower exports to the Netherlands, the Dutch project will train six cooperatives in better far [...] | 2007-10-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI934 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] The Dutch government, through the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC),is supporting the Rwanda Flower Farmers Association. In an attempt to increase flower exports to the Netherlands, the Dutch project will train six cooperatives in better far [...] | 2007-10-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI935 | IMF ON PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT EFFORTS IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 12 a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team described for local diplomatic missions its efforts to assist the Ministry of Finance and other Rwandan ministries and agencies in improving Public Finance Management (PFM --the effective and efficient use of pub [...] | 2007-10-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN RW |
07KIGALI94 | RWANDA: FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 14:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM RW |
07KIGALI954 | ICTR PROSECUTOR ASKS FOR HELP IN POTENTIAL CASES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow met with Charge and pol/econ chief on October 17 to discuss potential cases against Rwandan officials and the importance of witness protection. [...] | 2007-10-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI96 | Serena Hotels helps validate the Rwandan potential [...] SUMMARY. The Serena Group signed a 30-year concession to manage the two largest Rwandan hotels -- the Kigali InterContinental Hotel and the Kivu Sun Hotel, beginning February 1 2007. The hotels will be relaunched following an extensive refurbishment under Serena branding, marking another attem [...] | 2007-01-31 15:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV BFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV RW |
07KIGALI961 | Rwanda Oil Pipeline: Feasible, Profitable, and Necessary [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 9, Energy and Communications Minister of State Albert Butare opened a workshop to review the United States Trade Development Agency (USTDA)-funded findings on the extension of an oil products pipeline from Kampala to Rwanda. The report clearly supports extension of [...] | 2007-10-22 08:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
07KIGALI962 | PRESIDENT KAGAME HAS PRIVATE MEETING WITH PRESS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 14:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
07KIGALI965 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GOLDEN SPEAR CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen Lt. J. Damascene KAYITANA, DOB 08/23/1969, scheduled to attend Golden Spear Conference November 5 - 8, 2007. 3. (SBU) Post has discovered no derogatory inform [...] | 2007-10-23 13:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
07KIGALI966 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNPLAYS CONGOLESE FDLR [...] (C) Summary. On October 23 Foreign Minister Charles Murigande expressed considerable reservations about the Congolese "Ex-Far/Interahamwe Action Plan," regarding it as less detailed and less concrete than earlier plans, and in conflict with current planning by the Tripartite-Plus Chiefs of [...] | 2007-10-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MOPS RW |
07KIGALI968 | RWANDA LIKELY TO SUPPORT WALKER IAAC CANDIDACY [...] (U) On October 23 PolOff met with Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche on candidacy of David M. Walker for the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). Rutsinga said the Government of Rwanda would have to [...] | 2007-10-23 16:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA RW |
07KIGALI969 | RWANDA GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PRIORITY UNGA [...] (U) On October 23 PolOff met with Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche on UN General Assembly Third Committee resolutions. Rutsinga was receptive to U.S. request to take a stand against no-action motions and gene [...] | 2007-10-23 16:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA UN KTIA RW |
07KIGALI970 | GACACA GENOCIDE ADJUDICATIONS ON TRACK FOR [...] (C) Summary. According to officials in Rwanda's National Service of Gacaca Courts, 90 percent of all gacaca cases have been processed and adjudications will be completed by the end of 2007. Processing remaining category one cases (those involving genocide leaders/organizers or those who comm [...] | 2007-10-24 07:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI979 | RWANDA SUPPORTS RAPE RESOLUTION, MAY ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) In absence of the Foreign Minister and Minister of State, A/DCM called upon International Organizations Director Ben Rutsinga on October 26 to discuss the U.S.-sponsored rape resolution and the Cuba embargo resolution. On the rape resolution, Rutsinga reiterated Rwanda's strong support f [...] | 2007-10-26 10:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA RW |
07KIGALI985 | REFUGEES IN RWANDA - A CHALLENGE FOR GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: The refugee operation in Rwanda is having difficulty keeping pace with the growth of the Congolese refugee population. In the past six-months, over 3000 Congolese have entered Rwanda, fleeing fighting in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 60 percent of the [...] | 2007-10-30 10:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PREF PGOV RW |
07KIGALI989 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) Two Liberal Party parliamentarians lost their seats in the Chamber of Deputies after being expelled from their party. The government set up a Commission to investigate the shooting-down of the Habyarimana presidential jet in 1994. Two independent publishers temporarily suspended their [...] | 2007-10-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI106 | PRESIDENT KAGAME'S MEDIA COMMENTS ON KENYA [...] (U) Recent comments made by Rwandan President Paul Kagame about the use of military force to resolve the situation in Kenya have resulted in a series of articles in local and international media, both critical and supportive of his views. In one interview, Kagame expressed a desire to see mor [...] | 2008-02-08 11:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI107 | SPANISH JUDGE INDICTS 40 RWANDAN OFFICERS [...] (U) Summary. A Spanish judge's indictment of 40 Rwandan military officers for mass killings has been viewed with measured skepticism by the Rwandan government, which awaits receipt and evaluation of the judicial documents. Media versions of the judge's statements suggest that outlandish an [...] | 2008-02-08 11:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
08KIGALI111 | RWANDA SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: President Bush's February 19 visit to Rwanda is eagerly anticipated by the Government of Rwanda (GOR) and the Rwandan people. President and Mrs. Bush will be warmly welcomed. This visit is already widely viewed as serving to underscore the U.S. Government's d [...] | 2008-02-11 09:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MASS EAID RW |
08KIGALI112 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI113 | JUSTICE MINISTER ON ILAC REPORT, BWINDI [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met February 4 with Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama. The Minister expressed strong reservations about the justice sector survey conducted by the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC),saying it was not a proper basis for a fund-raising efforts, as n [...] | 2008-02-11 15:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
08KIGALI114 | TWO JOURNALISTS CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL LIBEL [...] (U) On February 8, a Rwandan district court convicted two journalists, Charles Kabonero and Didas Gasana, of criminal libel. The judge imposed a one year suspended sentence, placed the two men on two year's probation, and required payment of a one million Rwandan franc fine (about USD 1800) [...] | 2008-02-12 10:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI116 | RWANDA ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande to present points on seeking support for Kosovo's upcoming declaration of independence. Pol/econ chief subsequently spoke twice with Ministry of Foreign Affairs directors on this issue and gave them a non-paper on the subj [...] | 2008-02-13 13:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI121 | PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY 2008 ESF AND INCLE [...] Post requests FY 2008 ESF and INCLE funding for the baseline assessment project summarized below. A. Applicant name: Post is in the process of determining which NGO will be most capable of conducting such a baseline assessment. KURET, a local NGO, has done a recent and quite excellent stu [...] | 2008-02-20 06:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI125 | GOR RECEIVED INVITATION FOR THE WASHINGTON [...] EconOff received confirmation from an official within the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure that the Minister of State for Energy and Communications, Albert Butare, had received an invitation from the German Government to attend the Washington International Conference on Renewable Energy (WIR [...] | 2008-02-25 13:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG RW EPET |
08KIGALI134 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AVIATION LEADERSHIP [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive training in the AFSAT Aviation Leadership Program on March 8, 2008. Last Name First Name Rank DOB -------- [...] | 2008-02-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI135 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive ACOTA training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- AGABA Charle [...] | 2008-02-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI137 | RWANDA 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] Post submits the following information for the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report. Responses are keyed to reftel. ------------- 27. CHECKLIST ------------- A. Rwanda is a source country for small numbers of women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic labor, and, i [...] | 2008-02-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB RW |
08KIGALI138 | RWANDA ON PROPOSED TERMINATION OF RWANDA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 15:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC RW |
08KIGALI148 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CUSTOMS AND BORDER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive USG-sponsored training on customs and border protection practices. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- [...] | 2008-03-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI151 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION TEAMS RECOMMEND MONITORS, [...] (C) Summary. Two groups of EC election experts recently visited Rwanda. One team, concerned with election monitoring, will recommend to Brussels that a 60-plus election monitoring team be sent to Rwanda for the Chamber of Deputies election this fall. An earlier EC group, which evaluated p [...] | 2008-03-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
08KIGALI16 | FUEL SHORTAGES POSSIBLE AS RESULT OF KENYA UNREST [...] (SBU) Political unrest in Kenya has meant no fuel trucks arriving in Rwanda from Kenyan railway depots for the last week or more (as in Uganda - see reftel). Rwanda has a fuel storage capacity of 29 million liters (gasoline and diesel); stocks now sit at 5 million liters of gasoline and 1.5 [...] | 2008-01-09 07:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI161 | RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) This edition of the monthly economic roundup includes: -- Commercial News: - Mobile Phone Industry Heats Up - New Stock Exchange Continues to Grow - Property Registration Fees Change -- Investment Issues: Bilateral Investment Treaty Signed -- Regional Issues: - Kenyan Viol [...] | 2008-03-06 13:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI165 | TIM SHORTLEY MEETS FOREIGN MINISTER AND GREAT [...] (C) Summary. Senior Envoy for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley and Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Charles Murigande and Great Lakes Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera March 6 to discuss rebel Congolese militia leader Laurent Nkunda, the Kivus Peace Process and the Nairobi Agreement, and [...] | 2008-03-10 07:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM RW |
08KIGALI166 | MODEST CABINET RESHUFFLE IN RWANDA [...] (C) Summary. President Kagame reshuffled his cabinet on March 7, issuing a late-night communique listing a 28- person body of Ministers and Ministers of State, twenty-three of whom served in the previous cabinet. Most major ministries went unchanged, with the Prime Minister and Ministers [...] | 2008-03-10 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RW |
08KIGALI167 | FORMER RDF SPOKESMAN AND SPY CHIEF PATRICK [...] (C) Leah Karegeya, wife of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, former RDF spokesman and Director of External Intelligence at the Rwandan National Security Service, met with PolOff on March 6 to provide information on the whereabouts and activities of her husband and of her own current situation in Rwand [...] | 2008-03-10 15:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI178 | Rwanda Update for 2008 President?s Report on [...] SUMMARY. In accordance with reftel, the following provides an update for the 2007 President?s Report on AGOA for Rwanda. Economic Situation: The government exercises, chiefly through the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, manages the economic health of the country, including tax co [...] | 2008-03-13 11:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD RW |
08KIGALI179 | RWANDA CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] SUMMARY: President Paul Kagame continues to be a strong proponent of fiscal transparency within the Rwandan government (GOR). His government's strong anti- corruption stance, policies of financial openness and several significant financial reforms have been commended by the IMF as well as ot [...] | 2008-03-13 11:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI2 | ALLEGATIONS OF "GENOCIDE IDEOLOGY" IN SECONDARY [...] (C) Summary. In December allegations of "genocide ideology" surfaced regarding a number of secondary schools around Rwanda. A parliamentary Commission report criticized the Ministry of Education for its alleged lack of concern, and the Education Minister received heavy criticism herself at [...] | 2008-01-03 08:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KAWC RW |
08KIGALI201 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TRIPARTITE PLUS [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to attend a Tripartite-Plus Intelligence Refresher Course (ranks are N/A): Last Name First Name DOB --------- --- [...] | 2008-03-19 13:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI202 | RECENT PROBLEMS WITH RWANDAIR EXPRESS CAUSE CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently Rwandair Express (Rwandair),Rwanda's regional airline carrier, has been experiencing major breakdowns in both airline safety and customer service. Concerned about the safety of American citizens and Mission staff who frequently use Rwandair to travel around the regio [...] | 2008-03-19 16:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV AMGT CASC RW |
08KIGALI203 | UPDATE ON GACACA GENOCIDE CASES [...] (SBU) Summary. Gacaca courts by the end of 2007 had heard over one million genocide cases, with just under seventy thousand cases remaining. New gacaca legislation will move most category one cases (the most serious suspects, just under nine thousand) from regular courts to the gacaca sys [...] | 2008-03-20 10:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
08KIGALI204 | JOINT GOVERANCE ASSESSMENT UNDERWAY [...] (C) Summary. A team of independent researchers has completed a first draft of a Joint Governance Assessment (JGA),an effort directly jointly by the Government of Rwanda and development partners (and funded by the World Bank). The Assessment analyzed three areas of concern, Ruling Justly, [...] | 2008-03-20 12:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM RW |
08KIGALI224 | IMF POVERTY REDUCTION AND GROWTH FACILITY [...] A recent IMF mission concluded a two-week Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) review with an overall assessment that Rwanda's economy continues to perform well, reaching 6 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2007. This was the IMF's fourth review under the three-year arran [...] | 2008-03-26 06:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI225 | JOURNALIST UNDER FIRE AFTER KAGAME-HITLER [...] (U) Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, editor-in-chief of Umuco (an independent Kinyarwanda-language paper),is being sought by Rwandan authorities after the publication of a highly controversial and inflammatory March 12 - 27 issue that among other things compared President Kagame to Hitler. The major [...] | 2008-03-26 12:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
08KIGALI227 | INTERPOL ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR RWANDAN [...] (SBU) Presidential Chief of Protocol Rose Kabuye informed CDA March 27 that Rwanda had received an INTERPOL arrest warrant for Rwanda Armed Forces Chief of General Staff Brigadier General James Kabarebe following his indictment by a Spanish judge (reftel). Forty Rwandans were indicted by the [...] | 2008-03-31 11:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI231 | RWANDA THREATENS PULL-OUT FROM UNAMID IF DEPUTY [...] (C) Charge spoke with Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali March 31 on the margins of the White House Faith-Based Initiatives Conference regarding the apparent move by UN and or EU officials to remove Deputy UNAMID commander Karenzi Karake. General Karake and 39 other present and former Rwa [...] | 2008-04-01 07:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR RW |
08KIGALI237 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON SPANISH INDICTMENTS AND TRAVEL [...] (C) Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali called in Charge on April 2 to discuss the Spanish indictments and their affect on the ability of senior Rwandan government officials to travel to the U.S. Museminali expressed considerable Government of Rwanda (GOR) unease and asked for a formal wri [...] | 2008-04-02 16:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR MASS RW |
08KIGALI246 | PRESIDENT KAGAME COMDEMNS SPANISH INDICTMENTS, [...] (U) At a press conference on April 1, President Paul Kagame dismissed the indictment of 40 senior Rwandan military officers by a Spanish judge in angry tones, calling the judge arrogant, an example of Western critics who presume to tell third world countries how to run their affairs, and pol [...] | 2008-04-03 16:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MASS RW |
08KIGALI258 | RWANDA: UNHCR MANAGING SCARCITY AND INCREASED [...] (U) Summary: Managing the Congolese refugee population in Rwanda presented a significant challenge to UNHCR and its implementing partners. Congolese continue to arrive in the camps, and the camp birth rate adds significantly to the refugee population. The camps are overcrowded, with space a [...] | 2008-04-10 12:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
08KIGALI259 | RWANDANS DEMAND CHANGES TO JOINT GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: Joint Governance Assessment (JGA) Steering Committee Co-Chairperson and Minister of Local Government Protais Musoni called an urgent meeting of the Committee March 26 to discuss the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) concerns with the first draft of the assessment. Ministers and other [...] | 2008-04-10 12:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI260 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR LESSONS LEARNED [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to attend a Lessons Learned - Peacekeeping Operations workshop in Accra, Ghana. Last Name First Name Rank DOB ------- [...] | 2008-04-10 12:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI261 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICAN CENTER FOR [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to attend an African Center for Strategic Studies workshop. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- -- [...] | 2008-04-10 12:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI262 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: - High Council of the Press Releases Strategic Plan - Annual Government of Rwanda (GOR) Retreat - ICTR and GOR Sign Prisoner Accord - Auditor General's Report Published - 10th General Congress of Muslim Councils Meets --- [...] | 2008-04-10 13:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI264 | RWANDAIR REPLACES CEO - CANCELS FLIGHTS TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Former CEO of Rwandair, Manzi Kayihura, was arrested March 28 on charges of abuse of office. Rwanda's national airline has been battered recently by safety concerns, poor customer service and financial woes (reftel). Incoming CEO and former Board Chairman Gerald Zirimwabagabo c [...] | 2008-04-10 15:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV AMGT CASC RW |
08KIGALI265 | RWANDA: REFUGEES BEING RECRUITED BY DRC ARMED [...] (C) Summary: On March 11 2008, RefCoord met with staff of both UNHCR and UNICEF-Rwanda who expressed the conviction that representatives of armed groups from the DRC traveled to Rwanda on more than one occasion to recruit adolescent refugees as fighters. Although refugees refused to make off [...] | 2008-04-10 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RW |
08KIGALI266 | PRESIDENT KAGAME CONTINUES TO CASTIGATE THE WEST [...] (U) At April 7 genocide commemoration ceremonies at Nymata in eastern Rwanda (scene of extensive massacres in the 1994 genocide),President Paul Kagame (speaking consecutively in English and Kinyarwanda so "there could be no misinterpretation" of his comments) continued his harsh criticism of [...] | 2008-04-11 06:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI269 | GRENADE ATTACK ON GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN KIGALI [...] (C) At approximately 7:00 p.m. local time on April 10, an unidentified individual tossed a grenade at the entrance gate to the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali. One policeman at the gate was killed, and another policeman wounded. By some accounts, a group of mourners were leaving t [...] | 2008-04-11 11:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI270 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive ACOTA training to command the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) 19th Battalion in a peace keeping mission in Darfur. Ple [...] | 2008-04-14 09:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI273 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2008 [...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post supports a request from the Government of Rwanda (GOR) to host Embassy Science Fellow Maxine Levine, USDA in 2008. The GOR has agreed to provide housing and office space for the proposed Science Fellow. Embassy point of contact is Alexander Sokoloff; ema [...] | 2008-04-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER RW |
08KIGALI276 | WAR CRIMES AMBASSADOR VISITS RWANDA ON ICTR CASE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Ambassador Clint Williamson met with a variety of Rwandan officials April 13-16 to discuss the prospects for case transfers from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR. Cautioning officials that the ICTR may initially rule agains [...] | 2008-04-17 12:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR RW |
08KIGALI279 | APPEALS JUDGE ON GACACA PROCESS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL [...] (C) Summary. A gacaca court sector president reported that most cases had been adjudicated without problem, and that the Hutu and Tutsi communities had largely accepted the proceedings and the sentences. Her court had expended much time and energy sorting through false accusations, and the [...] | 2008-04-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI292 | THE SPANISH INDICTMENTS: OUTRAGEOUS AND INACCURATE [...] (C) Summary. The Spanish indictment of 40 Rwandan military officers offers an unrecognizable version of some of the most painful and violent episodes in Rwanda's history, distorting the established record, inventing mass killings, placing the blame for any misfortune Rwandans have suffered [...] | 2008-04-24 08:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI293 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- KAGENERA Kamari S [...] | 2008-04-24 11:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI295 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DARFUR EQUIPMENT AND [...] (SBU) DATT and Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on April 25 to General Patrick Nyamvumba, J4 at the Ministry of Defense. PAE contractor Riaan Slabbert and AF/SPG contractor Bob Goosey accompanied. USG team presented a training and support services list to General Nyamvumba, which t [...] | 2008-04-28 12:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO RW |
08KIGALI300 | RWANDA: PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS NGO UNDER FIRE? [...] (C) Summary: The executive secretaries of Rwanda's two most outspoken human rights organizations recently described their relations with the Government of Rwanda (GOR). The Great Lakes Human Rights League (LDGL) alleged harassment and attempts to damage the organization, while LIPRODHOR spoke [...] | 2008-04-29 09:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
08KIGALI301 | RWANDA: NO PLANS FOR ALTERNATE NOMINEE FOR 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI302 | BWINDI ASSURANCES DOCUMENT RECEIVED FROM JUSTICE [...] (C) Mission received on April 29 from Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama a Justice Ministry Document entitled "Goverment of Rwanda Assurances on Bwindi Defendants Leonidas Bimenyimana, Gregoire Nyaminani and Francois Karake." Full text of the document, dated April 29, 2008, appears below: [...] | 2008-04-29 16:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI304 | CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) The Chinese and Rwandan governments continue their cooperative relations on a number of fronts, with Chinese parastatals and private companies active in Rwanda, a number of development projects underway, and discussions continuing on various soft loans. As noted in refs B and C, China [...] | 2008-04-30 14:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR SENV RW |
08KIGALI305 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY [...] (U) Summary: For the majority of Rwandans who live in rural areas, good rains and harvests in 2007/2008 have kept prices for many staple crops at, or below, last year's prices. Urban Rwandans have not fared as well and are suffering from significant price increases -- in some cases up to 100 [...] | 2008-04-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ETRD EGOV RW EAID |
08KIGALI319 | RWANDA SUPPORTS US POSITION AT NPT PREPCOM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee meeting to Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations in the Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 2. Rutsinga expressed his government's continuing support for the NPT [...] | 2008-05-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI32 | RWANDA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 06:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB RW |
08KIGALI323 | RWANDA UNDERCUTS WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY BY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Rwandan Ministry of Information hosted a widely attended program of lectures in honor of World Press Freedom Day on May 2. The government expelled three independent journalists midway through the proceedings, claiming they had not been invited. Following the expulsions, t [...] | 2008-05-06 08:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO RW |
08KIGALI324 | RWANDA - OUTREACH TO ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND [...] (U) Embassy Kigali has taken several strides to reach out to activists for democracy and dissidents since the Secretary's request for such action by Chiefs of Mission. Ambassador and Embassy personnel have met frequently with members of independent political parties, human rights and civil soc [...] | 2008-05-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RW |
08KIGALI325 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: - Four Political Parties In Breach of Financial Regulations - Minister of Justice Campaigns Against "Judicial Sadism" - Killings of Genocide Survivors Climb? - Fighting "Genocide Ideology" Ombudsman Criticizes Four Par [...] | 2008-05-06 09:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
08KIGALI330 | MASS FIRING OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES TEACHERS [...] (C) Summary. Jehovah's Witnesses officials reported 142 of their members had been fired from their jobs as teachers after refusing to participate in nation-wide goverment solidarity camps. They reported increased difficulties with the government since public criticism by the new Minister of [...] | 2008-05-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF RW |
08KIGALI338 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- NKUBIRI Jean [...] | 2008-05-12 15:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI343 | PROGRESS ON BWINDI ASSURANCES [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In a May 14 meeting with pol/econ chief, Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga offered to sign an additional assurances document, as head of the independent agency within the Rwandan Government responsible for all public prosecut [...] | 2008-05-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KCRM RW |
08KIGALI348 | ICAO'S NINETEENTH AVIATION SECURITY PANEL MEETING [...] (U) Econoff presented reftel talking points to Dr. Richard Masozera, Director General of Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority. Dr. Masozera was just appointed to his current position six weeks ago and was not aware of ICOA's Aviation Security Panel of Experts (AVSECP) meeting scheduled to meet in [...] | 2008-05-18 08:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EGOV PTER PREL RW |
08KIGALI351 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GOLDEN SPEAR CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to attend the Golden Spear conference: Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- SEBAGANJI [...] | 2008-05-19 12:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI363 | RWANDA ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] (U) This edition of the Rwanda economic review includes: Commercial News: - Rwandair shakes up management, cancels flights to Johannesburg - Government cracks down on shaky micro-finance institutions - Rwandex - Rwanda's largest coffee exporter suspends operations - Nakumatt - Kenya's lea [...] | 2008-05-23 10:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI364 | RWANDA SPECIAL SELF HELP PROGRAM: FY 2007 STATUS [...] (U) Summary: During FY 2007 Embassy Kigali selected twelve projects for the Ambassador's Self Help Program with total allocations of USD 75,000. All of the projects are on-going and performing satisfactorily. End summary. 2. (U) Project(s) summary and status as follows: A. Project N [...] | 2008-05-23 10:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AFIN EGOV RW |
08KIGALI365 | RWANDA RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S GLOBAL FOOD [...] (U) Summary: Rwanda is a net importer of staple foods and supports initiatives aimed at improving agricultural productivity, increasing access to science and technology and removing barriers to trade in staple foods. The government of Rwanda (GOR) does not impose any official export restrict [...] | 2008-05-23 10:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO KPAO |
08KIGALI368 | RWANDA ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] (U) This edition of the Rwanda economic review includes: Commercial News: - Rwandair shakes up management, cancels flights to Johannesburg - Government cracks down on shaky micro-finance institutions - Rwandex - Rwanda's largest coffee exporter suspends operations - Nakumatt - Kenya's l [...] | 2008-05-27 06:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW |
08KIGALI369 | RWANDA - SPANISH INDICTMENTS "MERE ARROGANCE" [...] (U) Government of Rwanda (GOR) officials, including President Paul Kagame and Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama, continue their campaign against the Spanish indictment of 40 Rwandan military officials (reftels). In comments delivered to commemorate Israel's 60th year, Kagame called the [...] | 2008-05-27 13:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI377 | PROPOSALS FOR FY 2008 AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR [...] (U) Embassy Kigali submits the following two proposals for consideration for funding by the FY 2008 Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees. Note: Post will submit more detailed information on each project to PRM via unclass e-mail. Project: Concrete Drainage System and Spring Capping Description: T [...] | 2008-05-30 11:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF RW |
08KIGALI38 | RWANDAN OFFICIALS ON NAIROBI AGREEMENT AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Charles Murigande on January 14 and Great Lakes Special Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera on January 15 regarding the Kivus Conference, events in eastern Congo, and the Nairobi Agreement. The Government of Rwanda (GOR) will consider attend [...] | 2008-01-15 16:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA RW |
08KIGALI380 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: - Minister of Information Battles Independent Media - RPF Meets on Genocide, Defense of Government Policy - Spillover of Spanish Indictments - Genocide Fugitive Reaches Out to GOR? - National Electoral Commission on Track [...] | 2008-06-02 15:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI381 | RWANDA - INFORMATION ON FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN [...] (U) Post submits the following information on the presence of forced and child labor in the production of goods in Rwanda. - Good: Tea - Type of exploitation found in tea production: Exploitative child labor - Sources of information and years: -- Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia Toget [...] | 2008-06-03 11:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
08KIGALI392 | EMBASSY VISIT TO GIKONDO TRANSIT CENTER [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief and Pol Assistant visited the Gikondo Transit Center in Kigali in late May. Kigali City Vice Mayor for Social Affairs Jeanne D'Arc Gakuba and center officials conducted a tour of the large spare complex, formerly a warehouse, in a mixed industrial and residential area o [...] | 2008-06-06 08:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI393 | INCREASED FDLR INFILTRATIONS INTO RWANDA [...] (C) Summary. Rwandan security officials reported 76 "infiltrations" by Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) intelligence squads since January 1, with 14 operatives captured, and some killed in firefights with Rwandan border forces. Accompanying these infiltrations, a number [...] | 2008-06-06 11:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI402 | UPDATED CONTACT NUMBERS FOR RWANDAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Post submits the following information on Rwandan government officials. Country code for Rwanda is 250. Cell phones are generally more reliable than land lines. - Head of State Last/Family Name: KAGAME First/Middle Names: Paul Conventional Usage: Paul Kagame Formal Title: His Excel [...] | 2008-06-11 06:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI410 | RWANDA HOSTS SUCCESSFUL JOINT MONITORING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. On June 4, Rwanda hosted delegations from the DRC, the European Union, United States, United Nations, South Africa, and African Union for the fourth Joint Monitoring Group - Envoys' Level meeting. Participants discussed continuing implementation of the Nairobi Accord and its int [...] | 2008-06-11 15:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI414 | RWANDA AND OPIC - PROJECTS AVAILABLE, OBSTACLES [...] (U) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Executive Vice President John Simon met with Government of Rwanda (GOR) officials, members of the private sector, and potential project partners during a visit to Rwanda June 4 and 5. In these discussions, Simon described to receptive audienc [...] | 2008-06-13 09:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI415 | FOUR RWANDAN OFFICERS ARRESTED FOR 1994 REVENGE [...] (U) On June 11, a Rwandan military spokesman announced the arrest of four military officers (one retired) for the June 5, 1994 killing of 13 Catholic clergy, including several bishops, at Kabgayi, a Catholic church complex. These alleged murders occured at the height of the genocide, when a [...] | 2008-06-13 10:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI417 | RWANDA ENERGY REVIEW - ENERGY INDEPENDENCE BY [...] (U) Summary: With economic development strangled by the high cost of imported energy, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) has embarked on an ambitious plan of domestic energy independence maximizing use of alternative energy sources. The government is aggressively promoting hydroelectric power an [...] | 2008-06-16 14:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC |
08KIGALI422 | TRANSFER OF GENOCIDE SUSPECTS TO RWANDA - UK [...] (SBU) Summary. Rwanda has received three different judicial evaluations recently of its capacity to try 1994 genocide suspects returned from abroad. A British district judge most recently ruled in favor of the extradition of four individuals to Rwanda for trial, citing sufficient judicial in [...] | 2008-06-18 14:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI423 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive IMET training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- MWIZA Mutagoma C [...] | 2008-06-19 15:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI425 | RWANDA HOSTS SIXTH CHOD MEETING [...] (C) Participants at a June 19-20 Chiefs of Defense Staff meeting in Kigali agreed upon the following proposals: -- Operationalize the existing FARDC/MONUC plan against negative forces -- Share timely information and intelligence during those operations -- FARDC/MONUC to establish a mobilii [...] | 2008-06-23 11:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI436 | RWANDA SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR BILL NELSON [...] (SBU) Introduction: Senator Nelson's visit to Rwanda comes at a promising time in U.S.-Rwandan relations. The U.S. Government has a deep partnership with Rwanda on a wide-range of bilateral, regional and global issues such as expanding economic development, peacekeeping in Darfur, resolving t [...] | 2008-06-25 14:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI439 | RWANDA: AU DELEGATION [...] The Rwandan delegation consists of Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali and Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama. They are at Sharm el-Sheikh now, and will likely depart July 3. The Rwandan Foreign Ministry did not have hotel information on the delegation, but promised to forward when obta [...] | 2008-06-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM OVIP RW |
08KIGALI442 | RWANDA HOSTS FIRST EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY [...] (U) Summary: On June 26-28, Rwanda hosted the 9th East African Community (EAC - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi) Heads of State Summit in conjunction with the first-ever EAC Investment Conference. EAC leaders focused on the need to improve transportation and energy infrastructure, [...] | 2008-06-30 15:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV OPIC RW |
08KIGALI450 | RWANDA TO CRITICS OF ITS JUDICIAL REFORM - "GIVE [...] (C) Summary: The Rwandan Ministry of Justice, with financial support from the World Bank and Belgian Technical Cooperation, hosted a conference June 16-18 on the state of the Rwandan judicial system since the 2003 implementation of reforms. During the conference, officials from the Government [...] | 2008-07-02 10:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI453 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO RW |
08KIGALI455 | RWANDA: MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (C) Kitty Llewelyn (protect),editor of the Sunday magazine for Rwanda's only daily newspaper, the English-language New Times, spoke with poloff June 7 about her experience as an expatriate working for the paper. Llewellyn described a culture in which members of the news room struggled against [...] | 2008-07-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
08KIGALI456 | AU SUMMIT SUPPORTS RWANDA ON UNIVERSAL [...] (SBU) Rwanda continues its campaign against French and Spanish indictments of senior Government of Rwanda (GOR) officials. At the recent AU Summit in Egypt, the Assembly endorsed a "Report of the Commission on the Abuse of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction." The report noted the "poli [...] | 2008-07-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA RW |
08KIGALI460 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACSS WORKSHOP [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to attend ACSS Workshop in Kampala, Uganda Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- Kayiranga [...] | 2008-07-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI461 | SENATOR NELSON VISITS RWANDA [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Bill Nelson (D - FL) visited Rwanda July 4-6, meeting separately with President Kagame and National Security Service General Secretary Emmanuel Ndahiro, discussing Rwanda's regeneration after the 1994 genocide and intelligence matters, respectively. He also lunched wit [...] | 2008-07-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI475 | MILITARY PROSECUTOR ON CASE AGAINST FOUR SOLDIERS [...] (C) Summary. Investigation proceeds against the four soldiers arrested for the killing of Catholic clergymen in 1994 -- two have confessed their role in the killings, two maintain their innocence. No other cases of revenge killings appear to be under consideration by the military prosecuto [...] | 2008-07-11 11:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI483 | JOURNALIST EXPELLED FROM RWANDA [...] (U) On Saturday, July 12, Rwandan immigration authorities deported independent journalist Furaha Mugisha, the deputy managing editor of RIMEG, a local media group that produces the Umuseso and Newsline newspapers. The government-aligned Sunday Times headlined the expulsion, "Tanzanian With [...] | 2008-07-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI488 | RWANDAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 15:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA RW |
08KIGALI495 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMHT COURSE [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to attend IMHT course entitled "International Military HIV/AIDS Training - IMHT" Last Name First Name Rank DOB -------- [...] | 2008-07-24 11:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI496 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET COURSE [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual scheduled to attend the IMET "Basic Officer's Course - Military Training" Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- - [...] | 2008-07-24 11:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI497 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA POLICE TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to attend a Criminal Investigation Course at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Gaborone, Botswana. Last Name Fi [...] | 2008-07-24 11:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI499 | MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE PLEDGES STRONGER PROTECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a U.S.-led conference on conservation of the Greater Virunga Transboundary Landscape - home to the world's last 700 mountain gorillas - ministers from Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pledged to strengthen conservation and security efforts in the region [...] | 2008-07-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI5 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: -- Rwanda's Fifth National Dialogue -- The Rwandan Patriotic Front's 20th Anniversary Congress -- Changes in NGO Registration Procedures -- The High Council of the Press "Validation Workshop" President Chairs Fifth National D [...] | 2008-01-04 09:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RW |
08KIGALI503 | RWANDA: ZIMBABWE DEMARCH DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 15:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SADC RW |
08KIGALI510 | RWANDA - EVIDENCE OF NKUNDA RECRUITING FROM [...] (C) CDA Sim received an internal UNHCR Kigali report July 30 detailing efforts by associates of renegade General Laurent Nkunda to recruit combatants from Congolese refugee camps in Rwanda. The report (text below),which does not identify sources of information at Gihembe refugee camp, indica [...] | 2008-07-30 16:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
08KIGALI516 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AUGUST 11 ACOTA TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual and battalion scheduled to receive ACOTA Training Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- GASANA Jo [...] | 2008-08-01 09:54:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI517 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AUGUST 11 ACSS WORKSHOP [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual scheduled to attend the ACSS workshop in Kampala, Uganda Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- - [...] | 2008-08-01 10:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI521 | RWANDA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Preparations have begun in earnest for the September elections for the Chamber of Deputies. Late July, the EU elections monitoring advance team arrived in Kigali to begin preparations for its long-term and short-term observer teams. The Government of Rwanda (GOR) presented a code of cond [...] | 2008-08-05 12:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM RW |
08KIGALI525 | ETHNICITY IN RWANDA -- WHO GOVERNS THE COUNTRY? [...] (C/NF) An analysis of the ethnic breakdown of the current Rwandan government shows Tutsis hold a preponderant percentage of senior positions. Hutus in very senior positions often hold relatively little real authority, and are commonly "twinned" with senior Tutsis who exercise real power. Th [...] | 2008-08-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PINS RW |
08KIGALI533 | RWANDAN OFFICIALS ON EASTERN CONGO [...] (S) Summary. Rwandan officials in meetings with CODEL Payne staffers and Charge disputed recruitment at refugee camps in Rwanda by the wife of Laurent Nkunda, but admitted recruitment by other operatives takes place. These officials also dismissed the recent RUD-URUNANA surrender as a sham, [...] | 2008-08-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI534 | NEIGHBORHOODS FLATTENED TO MAKE WAY FOR URBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 14:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP BTIO ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RW |
08KIGALI536 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) This edition of the monthly political roundup includes: - Constitutional Amendments - Responding to Indictments - Last Political Prisoner Seeks Pardon, Without Apology - Prison Life Gets Tougher - New Policy on Visits and Food - Senate Calls for Closure of Gikondo Detention Center [...] | 2008-08-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI552 | FURTHER PROGRESS ON BWINDI ASSURANCES [...] (SBU) This is an action request - see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Charge met with Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama and Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga August 11 to discuss the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) assurances letter necessary for the deportation of the Bwindi defendants back to Rwand [...] | 2008-08-12 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KCRM RW |
08KIGALI558 | CHEVRON PULLS OUT OF RWANDA [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Chevron closed shop in Rwanda. Citing extensive fraud in its Rwandan operations (including in the alleged fueling of MONUC aircraft that had not been in Kigali),and friction with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) on compliance with U.S. sanctions against fueling aircraft [...] | 2008-08-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | BEXP BTIO ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RW |
08KIGALI559 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACSS WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual scheduled to attend ACSS Workshop at Marshal Center in Germany Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- [...] | 2008-08-13 15:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI560 | RWANDA - DEMARCHE ON EASTERN CONGO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminali dismissed concerns about the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (ref A). In particular, she rejected any notion that the Government of Rwanda (GOR) continued to support Laurent Nkunda and the CNDP and allowed them [...] | 2008-08-14 15:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
08KIGALI563 | GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA ASSURANCES ON BWINDI [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) Embassy received the following Letters of Assurance on Bwindi Defendants received from the Government of Rwanda on August 18, 2008 (reftel). 3. (SBU) BEGIN TEXTS: The Government of Rwanda would like to make the following [...] | 2008-08-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI602 | RWANDA ACCEPTS 20 MILLION DOLLARS OF USG DARFUR [...] (U) On September 3, Charge formally presented to the Rwanda Defense Forces approximately twenty million dollars of equipment and transportation support items under the Global Peace Operations Initiative, intended for use by Rwanda's UNAMID contingent in Darfur. The entire upper echelon of th [...] | 2008-09-04 11:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS RW |
08KIGALI603 | MINISTER OF INFORMATION ON "BIASED" VOA AND BBC [...] (C) Summary. Charge met with Minister of Information Louise Mushikiwabo August 28 to discuss her recent comments regarding possible suspension of the BBC and VOA broadcast transmissions for "non-factual" reporting. The BBC is now officially "boycotted" by the GOR, while the local Kinyarwan [...] | 2008-09-04 15:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI606 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual scheduled to attend the IMET course, "Ordnance Basic Officer Leadership." Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- - [...] | 2008-09-05 10:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
08KIGALI613 | RWANDA ON HUMAN RIGHTS, GEORGIA, KOSOVO, EGYPT [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met September 8 with Ben Rutsinga, IO Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to present several demarches. On the USG's human rights agenda at the upcoming UNGA session (ref A),as he has many times in the past Rutsinga noted Rwanda's "skeletal" team at the United N [...] | 2008-09-09 14:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA PHUM RW |
08KIGALI615 | SHORTLEY MEETS SENIOR RWANDAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) In conversations with Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley, Rwandan officials agreed that CNDP forces should pull back from forward positions gained in last several days in eastern Congo. While denying any special links with Nkunda forces, they agreed to send messages to [...] | 2008-09-10 12:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MASS MOPS RW |
08KIGALI620 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] (U) In this edition: - Release of Mucyo Commission report on French Responsibility in 1994 Genocide - Former ICTR Prosecutor on Rwandan Justice System, Universal Jurisdiction, and Transfer of Cases - Legislative Campaign Kick-Off - Some Reporters Shut Out - Kagame Talks Tough in Inter [...] | 2008-09-11 16:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI624 | "CONTROLLED DEMOCRACY" - THE RULING RPF DOMINATES [...] (C) Summary. President Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) has dominated the Chamber of Deputies election campaign, with several prQdural assists from the National Electoral CommissiQ The RPF has far surpassed the efforts of the two small parties also contesting thQelection -- the L [...] | 2008-09-12 08:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
08KIGALI631 | FIRST WE TAKE POWER, THEN WE SHARE IT - THE RPF [...] (C) On September 15, at polling stations nationwide the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) won well over 90 percent of the vote, as witnessed by hundreds of local and international observers. At these polling stations, the Liberal Party (PL) and Social Democratic Party (PSD) consistently p [...] | 2008-09-18 07:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
08KIGALI634 | RWANDA ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) This issue of the Rwanda Economic Review covers: Commercial Issues: -- Kobil Rwanda acquires Stippag petroleum business -- Total sells Rwanda operations to Engen Petroleum Ltd. -- Nakumatt launches business operations in Kigali -- Electrogaz dismantled Development Issues: -- Rwan [...] | 2008-09-18 14:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC |
08KIGALI652 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) J4 General Patrick Nyamvumba discussed readiness, timetables and deployment obstacles with pol/econ chief September 23. Nyamvumba described the early September Integrated Team Visit (ITV) by UN officials as a success, the two sides agreeing that Rwanda was g [...] | 2008-09-23 15:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL RW KPKO |
08KIGALI668 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #2 [...] (SBU) In conversation with our DATT on September 30, Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) J4 General Patrick Nyamvumba said the UN Pre-Deployment Visit (PDV) team noted in reftel will now arrive on October 8 for a three day final assessment of Rwanda's readiness to deploy to Darfur (other PDVs may be [...] | 2008-10-02 09:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL RW KPKO |
08KIGALI671 | IRAN, KOSOVO, NON-PROLIFERATION DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM UNGA RW |
08KIGALI708 | AGOA COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - RWANDA [...] (U) This cable responds to queries in reftel. Country Background Summary -------------------------- 2.(U) With 85 percent of its population engaged in subsistence agriculture, Rwanda's economic priorities include poverty alleviation, encouraging private investment and infrastructure d [...] | 2008-10-07 12:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV RW |
08KIGALI709 | RWANDA SPECIAL SELF HELP PROGRAM: OBLIGATION [...] (U) Summary: On September 26, 2008 CDA signed six grant agreements totaling $40,000 for the Ambassador's Self Help Program for FY 2008. Post has fully obligated all of the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program funds in FY 2008. 2. (U) Project(s) summary and status as follows: A. Proj [...] | 2008-10-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AFIN EGOV RW |
08KIGALI710 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONVOKES DIP CORPS ON DRC [...] (C) Summary. In remarks to the local diplomatic corps on October 7, Foreign Minister Museminali and Great Lakes Envoy Richard Sezibera condemned the continuing "co-location" and joint operations of the FDLR and FARDC, called for renewed application of the various peace agreements and Securi [...] | 2008-10-07 17:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS KPKO PHUM RW CG |
08KIGALI714 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #3 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO RW |
08KIGALI731 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #4 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 16:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO RW |
08KIGALI741 | PEACE, STABILITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH, NOT WAR, ARE [...] (C) Summary. Absent significant ethnic cleansing of Rwandaphone populations in eastern Congo, or a serious attack by the FDLR across the border, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) will likely keep its cool, keep its policy focus on development, and grit its collective teeth as it exchanges allega [...] | 2008-10-17 11:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO RW |
08KIGALI743 | ONE NEW MINISTER APPOINTED, SMALL SHUFFLE OF OTHER [...] (U) On Sunday, October 19, Radio Rwanda announced the appointment of Dr. Richard Sezibera, formerly the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, as Minister of Health. He took the place of Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo, who won election to the Chamber of Deputies in September as a Social Democrat [...] | 2008-10-21 07:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI75 | KOUCHNER VISIT TO KIGALI: GREAT ATMOSPHERICS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visited Kigali for four hours on January 26, sandwiched between stops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burkina Faso. Kouchner visited the Gisozi Genocide Memorial, and had talks with President Kagame, including a joint appearan [...] | 2008-01-31 10:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RW |
08KIGALI750 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] (U) In this edition: - EU Monitoring Team Privately Confirms Faulty Election Results - Chamber of Deputies Members Sworn In, Elect Speaker, Two Deputy Speakers - Government Seizes Newspaper Edition at Border - Cabinet Directs Expedited Adoption of English as Language of Instruction [...] | 2008-10-23 13:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI752 | UN TEAM FINDS EVIDENCE OF CNDP FINANCIAL SUPPORT [...] (C) DATT and Pol/Econ Chief spoke on October 22 with Jason Stearns, member of the UN Group of Experts for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regarding the Group's investigation of financial assistance to renegade General Nkunda's CNDP. Stearns said his group had documentary evidence of ov [...] | 2008-10-24 06:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI754 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #5 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 11:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO RW |
08KIGALI755 | RWANDA REINFORCING CONGOLESE BORDER; INVESTIGATING [...] (C) Charge met October 24 with outgoing Great Lakes Envoy Richard Sezibera to discuss eastern Congo issues and other matters. When asked of the UN Group of Experts investigations into financial transfer by CNDP supporters to a Rwandan bank (reftel),Sezibera said he had met with the Group's [...] | 2008-10-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL RW |
08KIGALI758 | TWO CONVICTED, TWO ACQUITTED, IN 1994 REVENGE [...] (U) On October 24, a Rwandan military court sentenced two army captains to eight years in jail for the murder of 15 Catholic clergy and lay brothers, including several bishops, in June 1994 near Kabgayi, a Catholic church complex. Two other officers, a general and major, were acquitted by the [...] | 2008-10-28 14:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
08KIGALI759 | RWANDA PROMULGATES PROBLEMATIC LAW ON "GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) With its publication in the October 1 Official Gazette, the Rwandan government promulgated a new law, "Relating to the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Ideology," complementing the 2003 statute, "Punishing the Crime of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes." The new law was [...] | 2008-10-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
08KIGALI760 | RWANDA ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) This issue of the Rwanda Economic Review Covers: Development Issues -- Government of Rwanda (GOR) consolidates seven agencies into the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) -- World Bank approves $24 million for ICT infrastructure -- GOR offers subsidies to local exporters -- Central [...] | 2008-10-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC |
08KIGALI763 | RWANDA: UNHCR SEES INCREASED POPULATION MOVEMENT [...] (SBU) Officials from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) in Kigali told poloffs October 29 that since the morning of October 28 some 1200 individuals had crossed from North Kivu into Rwanda near Gisenyi, and that more were amassing on the border. The individuals had declined [...] | 2008-10-29 16:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
08KIGALI768 | FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali briefed the local diplomatic corps October 29 on events in eastern Congo and the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) relations with the DRC. Museminali claimed that Rwandan armed forces had not fired in response to a Congolese armed forces (FARDC) [...] | 2008-10-31 10:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
08KIGALI769 | RWANDA UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS: REPORT #6 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 12:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO RW |
08KIGALI794 | MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT KAGAME OF RWANDA TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] The following letter was received on November 6, 2008 from the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to President-Elect Barack Obama: 05 November 2008 President-Elect Barack Obama United States of America Dear President-Elect Barack Obama, It gives me great pleasure to convey to you, the [...] | 2008-11-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP RW |
08KIGALI795 | RWANDA RELATIVELY UNSCATHED BY GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (U) Summary: The global financial crisis has so far spared Rwanda. Rwanda's small financial sector, limited import/export trade, subsistence agriculture and donor-supported public sector are on the periphery of the global financial system and as such only indirectly impacted by the financi [...] | 2008-11-10 08:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC RW |
08KIGALI796 | SENIOR RWANDAN OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN GERMANY [...] (C) Summary. German authorities in Frankfurt arrested close Kagame confidant and Chief of Rwandan Presidential Protocol, Rose Kabuye, under a European arrest warrant, based on indictments issued by a French judge in 2006. Kabuye requested transfer to France, where she will answer charges that [...] | 2008-11-10 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI798 | RWANDA ON NO-ACTION MOTIONS ON IRAN, BURMA, DPRK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 15:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI801 | RWANDA ON ARREST OF OFFICIAL, SITUATION IN CONGO [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali addressed the Kigali diplomatic corps on November 13 on the arrest in Germany of Rose Kabuye (reftel),Chief of Presidential Protocol, and on the situation in the DRC and prospects for progress in peacemaking. On Rose Kabuye, Museminali, assisted by [...] | 2008-11-13 16:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
08KIGALI806 | EAC MEETING - KIGALI [...] (SBU) On November 17 and 18 2008, Post convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC). EAC discussed the planned nationwide demonstration in Rwanda, which is expected to be peaceful. 2. (SBU) On November 19, 2008, citizens of Rwanda are planning a peaceful nationwide demonstration in respo [...] | 2008-11-18 15:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC KMSG KSEO |
08KIGALI810 | PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS NATIONWIDE IN SUPPORT OF [...] (U) Following nine days of demonstrations in front of the German Embassy in Kigali concerning the arrest of Chief of Presidential Protocol Rose Kabuye in Stuttgart (with occasional protest marches in front of the Deutsche Welle radio station complex and the European Union offices, also in Kig [...] | 2008-11-19 15:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI811 | RWANDA ON TALKS WITH CONGO, OBASANJO [...] (U) In a follow-up to talks held in Kinshasa October 31 - November 1, a DRC delegation led by Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba visited Kigali November 14-15 to continue discussions on events in eastern Congo, normalization of relations, and next steps. Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary [...] | 2008-11-20 12:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI818 | RWANDA ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) This issue of the Rwanda Economic Review Covers: -- Methane pilot project begins feeding power to national power grid -- International Finance Corporation (IFC) invests $4 million in Kivu Methane Gas Project -- Millicom wins tender to become Rwanda's third telecom provider -- MT [...] | 2008-11-24 13:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC RW |
08KIGALI819 | RWANDA ON ANTI-ISRAEL AND COMPLIANCE WITH [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief met November 24 with Joseph Kabakeza, Director General of Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to discuss reftel demarches on Anti-Israel resolutions (ref B) and the Non-Proliferation resolution (ref A). Kabakeza said his ministry wo [...] | 2008-11-24 15:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNGA RW |
08KIGALI820 | RWANDA'S REACTION TO KABUYE ARREST ENDANGERS VITAL [...] (C) Ambassador met with the German Charge November 20, in the wake of the mass demonstrations (ref A) against the arrest of senior Rwandan official Rose Kabuye in Germany (ref B). Expressing considerable dismay at the recent turn of events in German-Rwandan relations (asking at one point, "W [...] | 2008-11-25 14:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
08KIGALI821 | REWANDA RESPONSE TO PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) Emboffs reviewed reftel talking points with Minister of State in Charge of Agriculture Dr. Agnes Kalibata. Kalibata welcomed the initiative and agreed that a global partnership would be helpful for advancing global food security. The Minister noted global food insecurity "will not go aw [...] | 2008-11-26 10:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIDE AID |
08KIGALI85 | RWANDA: SITUATION STABLE AFTER EARTHQUAKE [...] (U) On the morning of February 3 a series of earthquakes struck Rwanda and the DRC in the area of southern Lake Kivu. The two most powerful quakes registered 6.0 and 5.0 on the Richter scale. In Rwanda, the most severe shocks were felt around the town of Cyangugu in the Western Province distri [...] | 2008-02-04 12:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAID RW |
08KIGALI856 | DEMARCHES ON UNESCO, IRAN, SOMALIA, KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarches to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Multilateral and Bilateral Relations Director Kato Ninyetegeka on December 15. On the UNESCO candidacy of Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Kosni (ref B),Ninyetegeka reacted immediately to the information on Kosni' [...] | 2008-12-16 16:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET | PREL PGOV UNESCO PHUM KPKO PARM RW |
08KIGALI859 | SUCCESSFUL JMG AND TRIPARTITE MEETINGS IN KIGALI [...] (SBU) Summary. The Rwandan government hosted successful Joint Monitoring Group - Envoys Level (JMG-EV) and Tripartite Plus Joint Commission meetings in Kigali from December 8-10. Participating governments and international organizations praised the recent progress and positive momentum of [...] | 2008-12-18 09:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS RW |
08KIGALI862 | RWANDA MINING REVIEW - NEW INVESTMENT, STRONG [...] (U) Summary: Since privatization in early 2007, the Rwandan mining sector has experienced a surge in foreign investment and explosive growth of export earnings. 2008 mineral exports are expected to grow to over $100 million from $70 million in 2007 and less than $40 million in 2006. While tra [...] | 2008-12-19 10:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV OPIC RW |
08KIGALI864 | RWANDA ON MAURITANIA AND AFRICAN UNION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 12:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM RW |
08KIGALI865 | RWANDA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) reinforced border control measures to identify potential terrorists and to prevent the entry into Rwanda of armed groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda's intergovernmental counterterrorism committee and a counterterrorism react [...] | 2008-12-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC RW |
08KIGALI866 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING ACTIVITIES OF RWANDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 15:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PINS RW |
08KIGALI871 | TAKING YES FOR AN ANSWER: SUPPORTING RWANDAN AND [...] (C) Summary. The international community should reinforce recent positive contacts between Rwandan officials and their Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) counterparts so that they may capitalize on their new, mutual commitments. The U.S. and others have long urged the Rwandans and DRC t [...] | 2008-12-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS PINR RW |
08KIGALI872 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] (U) In this edition: - Effort to Form New Political Party - Protests Continue at German Embassy - FDLR Officer Reaches Rwanda - President Kagame Presides at National Dialogue and RPF Meeting - New Labor Code Under Consideration Disaffected PSD officer Tries to Form New Pa [...] | 2008-12-24 13:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
08KIGALI876 | RWANDA: 2009 BUSINESS FACILITATION INCENTIVE FUND [...] (U) Embassy Kigali submits the following two projects for FY09 Business Facilitation Incentive Funds (BFIF). 2. (U) Project 1: Initiating information linkages and collaboration between the Rwandan Small Business Support Center and Commercial News/Think Global Incorporated. -- Justificat [...] | 2008-12-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID RW |
08KIGALI93 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individual(s) scheduled to receive IMET training at Maxwell Airforce Base. Last Name First Name Rank DOB --------- ---------- ---- --- S [...] | 2008-02-06 12:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL RW |
09KIGALI118 | RWANDA ON JUDGE PAINTER CANDIDACY FOR UN POST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KUNR UNGA RW |
09KIGALI119 | UNSC DESIGNATION OF FDLR LEADERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 15:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN KTFN RW |
09KIGALI124 | RWANDA WITHDRAWS FROM DRC IN COLORFUL JOINT [...] (U) On February 25, 1300 Rwanda combat troops joined several hundred Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) soldiers in a colorful departure ceremony in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),witnessed by the two nations respective Foreign Ministers, Defense Ministers, Chiefs of Defense Staff [...] | 2009-02-26 16:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PINS MOPS RW |
09KIGALI129 | USG PARTICIPATION IN THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 12:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL RW |
09KIGALI142 | RWANDAN-CONGOLESE COOPERATION IN THE WAKE OF [...] (C) Summary. The conclusion of Operation Umoja ("Our Unity) and the withdrawal of Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) troops from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have set the stage for further concerted bilateral Rwanda-Congo cooperation in the Kivus and beyond. Operations in South [...] | 2009-03-04 09:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RW CG |
09KIGALI149 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] (U) In this edition: - Annual Government of Rwanda (GOR) Retreat - Bringing Gacaca to a Close - End to Canadian Aid for Rwanda - Journalists Expelled From Police Event - Japan to Open Embassy in Rwanda ------------------------ GOR Holds Annual Retreat ------------------------ [...] | 2009-03-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI15 | RWANDA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] (U) This cable responds to queries in reftel 2. (U) OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------ -- The Government of Rwanda recognizes the private sector is an essential engine of development and welcomes foreign investment in policy and in practice. -- In Se [...] | 2009-01-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC KTDB USTR |
09KIGALI150 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN GATHERS FORCE [...] (C) Summary. In recent months, anti-corruption efforts by the Rwandan government (GOR) have gathered force, with several senior civil servants under arrest. The GOR leadership is issuing orchestrated messages on anti-corruption, and a new anti-corruption body has been established to coordin [...] | 2009-03-06 12:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM ECON RW |
09KIGALI151 | REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR 15TH GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefed the diplomatic community on March 3 regarding plans for the 15th commemoration of the 1994 genocide. It distributed a planning document from the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (NCFG),which called for extensive donor support f [...] | 2009-03-06 13:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI152 | NO FORMAL REQUEST YET FOR SUPPORT FOR RETURNEES [...] (SBU) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) and the United Nations High Council for Refugees (UNHCR) jointly held an information session March 3 on the status of preparations and outstanding needs to address Rwandans returning from conflict areas in neighboring [...] | 2009-03-06 13:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
09KIGALI158 | READING THE TEA LEAVES - RWANDA'S ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-10 15:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENGR EINV PGOV RW |
09KIGALI163 | NKUNDA LOSES FIRST ROUND IN COURT [...] (C) On March 11, a Rwandan Higher Instance court denied an application for release of detained renegade Congolese General Laurent Nkunda, ruling on procedural grounds that the court could not accept the case, and noting that the application had been addressed to the wrong individual represe [...] | 2009-03-12 15:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL |
09KIGALI172 | RWANDA DEFENCE FORCES TOP LEADERSHIP ON EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Charge d,Affaires and Defense Attache met Rwanda Defence Forces, (RDF) Chief of Defence Staff General James Kabarebe, Army Chief of Staff General Charles Kayonga and Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Muhire on March 18. Kabarebe expressed satisfaction with the recently c [...] | 2009-03-20 12:50:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RW |
09KIGALI173 | SOMALI PRESIDENT VISITS RWANDA [...] (SBU) President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed met with President Paul Kagame on March 16 during a short visit to Rwanda. Local media reported that the focus of the conversation was cooperation between the two governments, including military suppo [...] | 2009-03-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MOPS PGOV PREL RW |
09KIGALI174 | TREASURY DAS MCDONALD VISITS RWANDA [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: U.S. Department of Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for International Affairs and Technical Assistance Policy visited Kigali March 15-16. He heard mixed reviews on Rwanda's economy and business climate from government officials, commercial bankers, inter [...] | 2009-03-21 09:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV EINV RW |
09KIGALI177 | RWANDA ON MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 13:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RW |
09KIGALI181 | PYRETHRUM: BACK TO THE FUTURE? [...] (U) Summary: Rwandan production of pyrethrum, a natural insecticide that has been a key Rwandan export crop since 1937, collapsed in 2007/8 due to the country's sole refiner mismanaging suppliers and buyers. From a peak of 1,350 tons in 2006, production slipped to less than 220 tons in 2008. [...] | 2009-03-25 15:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV EINV USAID RW |
09KIGALI197 | WHITE PAPER DELIVERED ON PAKISTAN/ AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 11:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO MOPS MARR RW |
09KIGALI20 | MILITARY PROSECUTOR IDENTIFIES THOSE BEHIND RECENT [...] (C) Pol/Econ chief met with the chief military prosecutor on January 13 to discuss arrests made in connection with the December 27 grenade attacks in Kigali (ref A). The prosecutor said 18 individuals had been detained in the course of investigations, fifteen civilians and 3 low-ranking en [...] | 2009-01-15 10:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ASEC RW |
09KIGALI207 | RWANDA -- MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) In this edition: - Government Hears Journalists' Concerns on Media Law - Rwanda Takes Prisoners From Sierra Leone Special Court - Nkunda Hearing Postponed - Political Party Provisionally Denied Registration Springtime Thaw in Government-Media Relations ---------------------- [...] | 2009-04-13 07:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI208 | RWANDA -- MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) In this edition: - Government Hears Journalists' Concerns on Media Law - Rwanda Takes Prisoners From Sierra Leone Special Court - Nkunda Hearing Postponed - Political Party Provisionally Denied Registration Springtime Thaw in Government-Media Relations ---------------------- [...] | 2009-04-13 07:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI212 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD'S VISIT TO RWANDA [...] (C) Your visit underscores the importance of our relationship with Rwanda, our support for peace and security in the region, and our recognition of Rwanda's leading role as an international peacekeeping force. You will arrive shortly after a week-long national commemoration of the 1994 genoc [...] | 2009-04-14 11:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PGOV ECON EAID |
09KIGALI221 | RWANDA BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) The FY09 foreign assistance package for Rwanda includes funds that are considered assistance for the central government under the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2003 (FOAA-3). Post therefore provides the following responses to the questions [...] | 2009-04-20 06:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL EFIN PGOV RW |
09KIGALI237 | SUPPORTING DARFUR CANDIDACY OF RWANDAN GENERAL [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Rwandan government (GOR) has nominated Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba to be the Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force (UNAMID) in Darfur, replacing current Commander, Nigerian General Martin Agwai. Nyamvumba is currently the J4 (Logistics Ch [...] | 2009-04-24 09:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS KPKO RW |
09KIGALI262 | "REPATRIATE OR INTEGRATE" - BURUNDIAN REFUGEES IN [...] (U) Representatives from the Governments of Rwanda (GOR) and Burundi (GOB) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) held a tripartite meeting in Kigali on April 22 to discuss the repatriation of the 2,024 Burundian refugees currently residing in the Kigeme Camp in Rwanda's N [...] | 2009-04-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
09KIGALI279 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICE: RWANDA UN ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: I am delighted you will participate in the UN Security Council's May 17-18 visit to Rwanda. The Mission staff and I look forward to assisting you during your visit. Your participation underscores the importance of our relationship with Rwanda and our support [...] | 2009-05-08 06:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MOPS PHUM PINR RW |
09KIGALI287 | RWANDAN RESPONSE: SANCTIONS COMMITTEE INFO REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 10:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC UNSC KTFN RW |
09KIGALI289 | NKUNDA LOSES ROUND TWO; JUSTICE MINISTERS MEET ON [...] (C) On April 17, a Rwandan Intermediate court in Gisenyi denied an application for release of detained renegade Congolese General Laurent Nkunda. Ruling on procedural grounds similar to those of an earlier Kigali court (Ref A),the court held that it lacked the "competence" to hear the matte [...] | 2009-05-08 13:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL |
09KIGALI29 | RWANDA: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] Post submits the following information in response to reftel request for information on child labor in Rwanda. Point of contact for further information is PolOff Jennifer L. Orrico. A) Laws and regulations proscribing the worst forms of child labor: Article 28 of the Constitution guarant [...] | 2009-01-21 06:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PGOV RW |
09KIGALI292 | RWANDAN RESPONSE: SANCTIONS COMMITTEE INFO REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC UNSC KTFN RW |
09KIGALI302 | INFORMATION MINISTER ON BBC KINWYARWANDA SERVICE [...] (U) On May 11, Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo addressed the diplomatic corps on the April 25 suspension of BBC Kinyarwanda service FM transmissions in Rwanda (reftel). Flanked by Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali, Mushikiwabo spoke at length on the history of media in Rwanda and th [...] | 2009-05-15 09:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM RW |
09KIGALI31 | GERMANY, RWANDA AGREE TO RESTORE NORMAL RELATIONS [...] (C) On January 19 the Rwandan and German governments jointly announced they would appoint new ambassadors: the two governments agreed to "post to each other's capitals new heads of their respective missions in the near future." Rwanda had withdrawn its ambassador and requested the departure [...] | 2009-01-21 09:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI314 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ISAKSON [...] (SBU) Mission warmly welcomes CODEL Isakson to Rwanda. Your visit to Rwanda comes at an excellent time in U.S.-Rwandan relations. The U.S. Government has a deep partnership with Rwanda on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues such as fighting the spread of the global scourges [...] | 2009-05-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV PREL RW |
09KIGALI325 | RWANDAN AMBASSADORS NAMED FOR DRC AND OTHER POSTS [...] (SBU) On May 6, the Rwandan cabinet announced the nomination of several new ambassadors, including most prominently Amandin Rugira as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Following are biographic notes and Mission comments on the various nominations. 2. (SBU) Amandin [...] | 2009-05-27 09:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
09KIGALI328 | BBC TEAM MEETS WITH GOVERMENT FOLLOWING SUSPENSION [...] (C) On May 21, Jerry Timmins, the Head of BBC World Service for Africa and the Middle East, met with Rwandan officials to discuss the April 25 suspension of BBC Kinyarwanda Service broadcasts in Rwanda (ref B). According to BBC personnel who participated in the five-hour discussion, Informat [...] | 2009-05-28 06:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI329 | READ-OUT OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL MAY 17 MEETING [...] (C) A local diplomatic mission (protect) shared with us its written report on the UN Security Council team,s May 17 meeting with President Paul Kagame. The meeting preceded a separate discussion between Kagame and U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Susan Rice (reftel) and cov [...] | 2009-05-28 09:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO RW |
09KIGALI33 | SUPPORTING THE JOINT CONGOLESE AND RWANDAN EFFORT [...] (C) As the international community awaits details of the joint Congolese/Rwandan military effort in the Kivus, it is essential we keep in mind what a sea change this joint operation represents. After many ups and downs, and often sharp disagreements on what has been happening in the eastern [...] | 2009-01-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS PINR RW |
09KIGALI335 | RWANDA -- MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) In this edition: - Kagame Castigates Party Officials at RPF Political Bureau Meeting - Anti-Corruption Campaign Continues -- Prosecutor General Readies New Cases - New Political Parties Have Trouble Organizing - Nkunda Loses Round Three Kagame Tough On RPF Cadres --------- [...] | 2009-06-01 08:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR RW |
09KIGALI338 | RWANDA: NO MI-17S AVAILABLE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 09:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SMIG PARM RW |
09KIGALI346 | RWANDA SUPPORTIVE OF MYERS ICSC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL UNGA RW |
09KIGALI348 | IMF CONDUCTS SUCCESSFUL SIXTH REVIEW [...] (SBU) An IMF team successfully concluded its sixth review of Rwanda's three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program with a briefing for donor governments on May 29. The team found Rwanda had met all its 2008 PRGF performance targets; some early 2009 fiscal targets were mis [...] | 2009-06-08 13:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EFIN PREL RW |
09KIGALI353 | UNHCR ON CLOSURE OF KIGEME CAMP, RETURNING RWANDAN [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Rwanda Country Representative Nyekan (protect) to discuss the June 2 closure of Kigeme refugee camp, and the return of Rwandan refugees from Uganda. While 1500 Burundian refugees in Kigeme accepted return in Ma [...] | 2009-06-10 11:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM RW |
09KIGALI355 | RWANDA: DEMARCHES ON SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAGR ENRG SENV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI370 | RWANDA'S 2009-2010 BUDGET TABLED BEFORE PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister James Musoni introduced the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) 2009-2010 budget before Parliament on June 11. His budget message laid out a USD 1.452 billion budget, up 24 percent from last year in nominal terms, with domestic resources for the first time exceeding [...] | 2009-06-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID RW |
09KIGALI383 | BBC RESUMES LOCAL KINYARWANDA BROADCASTS [...] (U) On June 24, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) rescinded its April ban on the BBC's local FM Kinyarwanda broadcasts (which use GOR transmission facilities). The Rwandan cabinet had formally agreed on June 19 to allow resumption of broadcasts, following Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo [...] | 2009-06-25 10:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RW |
09KIGALI394 | RWANDA: IMPLEMENTING SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 12:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PREL RW |
09KIGALI409 | RWANDA: UNSC DRC SANCTIONS COMMITTEE INFO REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 11:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC KTFN UNSC RW |
09KIGALI410 | THE WAGES OF (GENOCIDE) SIN IN RWANDA -- YOUR CASE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, as the National Gacaca Service closes out its million-plus caseload, politically sensitive cases are being heard. Senior Hutu officials in Parliament, in the executive branch and in the military are finally facing their accusers. Conviction, acqu [...] | 2009-07-09 11:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM RW |
09KIGALI425 | 64TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: INTERIM REPORT ON RWANDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 11:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA RW |
09KIGALI428 | RWANDA: INITIATIVES TO COUNTER TORTURE [...] (SBU) Responding to reftel, in years past allegations of abuse and torture centered on Rwandan prisons and police stations. As recorded in our recent Human Rights Reports for Rwanda, the Rwandan prison service and Rwanda National Police (RNP) have made great strides in eliminating mistreatmen [...] | 2009-07-14 15:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM RW |
09KIGALI452 | FIRES CONTAINED IN VOLCANOES PARK, GORILLAS NOT [...] (U) Summary: Wildfires on the edge of the Volcanoes National Park, home to the silverback mountain gorillas, have been contained. The extent of damage to the park is being assessed, but according to Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (DFGFI),the fires did not significantly impact the G [...] | 2009-07-23 13:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON RW |
09KIGALI454 | RWANDA -- MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) In this edition: - Minister of Education Sacked - Ombudsman Report on Corruption Raises Hackles in Justice Sector - New Political Parties -- One Nearing Registration? - Nkunda Tries A Letter Writing Campaign Hard-Charging Minister Falls Hard on Corruption Charges ---------- [...] | 2009-07-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR RW |
09KIGALI468 | MINI-CABINET SHUFFLE IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) On July 26, Rwanda government radio and television announced President Kabila's modest reshuffling of cabinet positions. Most ministries went unchanged, with the key positions of Prime Minister and Ministers of Defense, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Internal Security, and Justice remaining [...] | 2009-07-29 13:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI47 | CONGOLESE REFUGEES DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ARREST OF [...] (SBU) Congolese refugee supporters of detained CNDP General Laurent Nkunda protested in two camps in Rwanda on January 25, Kiziba camp near Kibuye and Gihembe camp in Byumba. Sources at the Rwandan National Police and the local UNHCR office confirmed that the protests turned violent in Kiziba [...] | 2009-01-27 14:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM RW |
09KIGALI470 | GRENADE ATTACK NEAR GENOCIDE MEMORIAL [...] (C) On the evening of July 22, an unknown person tossed a grenade approximately 500 meters from the Kigali Memorial Center, the principal genocide memorial in Rwanda, which has the mass graves of some 300,000 genocide victims and a museum complex. The explosion injured two bystanders. Polic [...] | 2009-07-30 13:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM RW |
09KIGALI472 | NEXT STEPS FOR THE RWANDA-DRC PARTNERSHIP [...] (S) In a July 24 conversation with DCM (then Charge),National Security Service (NSS) Director General Emmanuel Ndahiro said he expected Presidents Kagame and Kabila to meet some time before the UNGA sessions in New York in September. He did not have a specific date, but added that the possib [...] | 2009-07-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS KMCA RW |
09KIGALI505 | GADFLY NEWSPAPER AGAIN COURTS CONTROVERSY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Rwanda's media authority on August 5 recommended the suspension of local-language newspaper "Umuseso" for three months, following its publication of an article that called President Kagame a dictator, compared him to the pre-genocide president who died when his aircraft was shot d [...] | 2009-08-15 13:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS RW |
09KIGALI506 | RWANDA'S MCC THRESHOLD LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior officials from Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) visited Rwanda in late July to meet with key stakeholders involved in implementing Rwanda's three-year, $24.7 million Threshold Program, which focuses on the MCC's "ruling justly" indicators. Senior Government of Rwan [...] | 2009-08-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI51 | WHEREABOUTS OF GENERAL NKUNDA [...] (C) As of January 28, General Laurent Nkunda continues to be held by Rwandan security forces in his family's residence in Gisenyi, according to close associates. He also has access to a government residence close by. He receives visits from family members (including a recent delivery of cl [...] | 2009-01-28 16:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PINS RW |
09KIGALI514 | RWANDA ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) This issue of the Rwanda Economic Review covers: Investment: - Sorwathe Tea Factory Innovation - Starbucks Macroeconomic Issues: - Central Bank Addresses Rwandan liquidity shortfall - Fitch Ratings optimistic about Rwanda,s creditworthiness - Remittances to Rwand [...] | 2009-08-21 06:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ENGR RW |
09KIGALI52 | MESSAGE FROM FOREIGN MINISTER MUSEMINALI OF RWANDA TO [...] The following text was received on January 28, 2009 from the Foreign Minister of Rwanda, Rosemary Museminali, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Honourable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington Excellency Madam Secretary of State, On the occasion of your appointment [...] | 2009-01-29 06:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP RW |
09KIGALI525 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Mission warmly welcomes CODEL Meeks to Rwanda. The U.S. Government partners closely with Rwanda on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues such as fighting HIV/AIDS and malaria, expanding economic development and assisting Rwanda's democratic structures. Rwandans deeply a [...] | 2009-08-26 06:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KDEM PGOV PREL RW |
09KIGALI529 | RWANDA URGES REFUGEES IN UGANDA TO RETURN HOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Approximately 15,000 Rwandan refugees remain in Uganda, despite Rwandan, Ugandan and UNHCR agreement that they should return to Rwanda by August 31. Most of these fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, although some have been in Uganda for decades. They are located both in camps [...] | 2009-08-26 15:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV RW UG |
09KIGALI531 | RWANDA PUSHING FOR "CLEAN AND GREEN" ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Rwanda (GOR) is pressing forward with development of diversified renewable energy sources to satisfy the majority of its power generation needs by 2012. Methane gas from Lake Kivu, hydroelectric and geothermal power will provide the bulk of its "on the grid" el [...] | 2009-08-27 05:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD RW |
09KIGALI534 | KAGAME FIRES EDUCATION MINISTER OF STATE FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary. President Kagame fired the Rwandan Minister of State for Education following media reports that the official had abused power during his earlier tenure as mayor of Kigali. Kagame initially criticized the press report, but after a later article provided additional information ba [...] | 2009-08-28 10:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO RW |
09KIGALI536 | RWANDA, CONGO SOLICIT FUNDING FOR JOINT ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The energy ministers from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met in Rwanda on August 17 to review and solicit donor support for a potential joint Rwandan-Congolese energy project. This project is a tangible outcome of the groundbreaking August 6 Kagame-Kabila m [...] | 2009-08-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN EAID ENRG RW CG |
09KIGALI54 | GOR WILL PRESENT FOUR NAMES TO UNSC SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC RW |
09KIGALI548 | RWANDA - DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 09:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PREL EINV RW |
09KIGALI55 | ANNUAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE WORKING GROUP [...] (S/NF) Post's Counterintelligence Working Group (CIWG) met and discussed current CIWG issues at post. Post is currently rated at "low" for human intelligence and technical threats. 2. (S/NF) In March and September 2008, CIWG reviewed the human intelligence (HUMINT) threat and the techni [...] | 2009-01-30 08:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC |
09KIGALI552 | WORLD BANK RANKS RWANDA MOST IMPROVED FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: World Bank "Ease of Doing Business" 2010 indicators--released September 8, 2009--recognize Rwanda as the world's top reformer in implementing business regulation reforms. Rwanda introduced reforms in seven out of ten categories, improving its overall ranking from 143 to 67 out o [...] | 2009-09-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD EAID RW |
09KIGALI56 | TELEPHONE NUMBER CHANGES - U.S. EMBASSY KIGALI AND RWANDA [...] Changes to Rwandan telephone numbers will be implemented beginning February 1, 2009. Currently there are three types of phone numbers in Rwanda: ten-digit Rwandatel Cellular; eight-digit MTN Cellular; and six-digit Rwandatel land line numbers. 2. All phone numbers will be migrated to ten-di [...] | 2009-01-30 09:20:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA AMGT ADPM ASEC AMED KRIM RW |
09KIGALI569 | KAGAME SWEARS IN TWO NEW SENATORS [...] (U) President Kagame on September 10 administered the oath of office to two new senators, Josee Kagabo and Henriette Umulisa, filling two vacancies. One was left by Stanley Safari, who fled Rwanda in June in the middle of his gacaca trial. (Note: He subsequently received a life sentence for [...] | 2009-09-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR RW |
09KIGALI57 | GREAT LAKES ENVOY MUTABOBA TAKES POSITION WITH UN [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Amandin Rugira informed emboffs on January 29 that Great Lakes Special Envoy Joseph Mutaboba has been selected to be the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau. According to Rugira, Mutaboba had initially applied [...] | 2009-01-30 11:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI570 | CODEL MEEKS VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Congressional delegation led by Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY),who chairs the House Financial Services Committee's Sub-committee on International Monetary Policy and Trade, and including subcommittee members Representatives Melvin Watt (NC),Sheila Jackson Lee (TX),Jack Kingston (GA) [...] | 2009-09-11 14:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP ECON ETRD EFIN EAID PGOV PREL RW |
09KIGALI585 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 12:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL KV RW |
09KIGALI586 | LOBBYING FOR RWANDAN SUPPORT AT UNGA [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs raised with Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali and her Americas Director our interest in working closely with Rwanda on UNGA issues. Museminali welcomed our approach and noted that the Government of Rwanda (GOR) often follows the African Union (AU) consensu [...] | 2009-09-18 15:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN RW |
09KIGALI587 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs met with Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali September 18 and delivered reftel demarche. Museminali expressed thanks for the background information, calling it very useful input. She did not indicate what the GOR position would be, but said she recognized [...] | 2009-09-18 17:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC RW |
09KIGALI588 | RWANDA NO "ISLAND" - KAGAME PREACHES REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 13 meeting with visiting senior State Department officials, President Kagame said his country's future success depended on the stability and prosperity of the region as a whole. Accordingly, Rwanda wanted closer ties with neighbors such as the Democratic Republ [...] | 2009-09-18 17:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON EAID CG RW |
09KIGALI589 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs met with Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali September 18 and delivered reftel demarche. Museminali expressed thanks for the background information, calling it very useful input. She did not indicate what the GOR position would be, but said she recognized [...] | 2009-09-22 06:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC RW |
09KIGALI590 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs met with Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali September 18 and delivered reftel demarche. Museminali expressed thanks for the background information, calling it very useful input. She did not indicate what the GOR position would be, but said she recognized [...] | 2009-09-22 06:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC RW |
09KIGALI618 | RDF GENERAL EMPHASIZES REGIONAL STABILITY, URGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 23 meeting, a senior Rwandan military officer stressed that regional peace and stability, especially with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),was in Rwanda's vital interest. He requested USG action against U.S.-based supporters of the Democratic F [...] | 2009-09-30 16:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINS PINR KJUS CG RW |
09KIGALI623 | WOULD-BE OPPOSITION PARTY'S TAKEOFF STALLED BY [...] (C) Frank Habineza, leader of the newly-formed Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR),told polcouns October 2 that his party was canceling its initial party congress, set to take place in Kigali the same day, because a key state official had informed him late on October 1 that higher-level a [...] | 2009-10-02 15:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS RW |
09KIGALI624 | FOOD SECURITY STABLE IN RWANDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Rwandan production of staple food crops has increased 25 percent since 2006 as a result of agricultural reforms introduced in 2007, including better distribution of fertilizers and crop intensification programs. Although food production is stable for 2009, dependency on adequate [...] | 2009-10-02 15:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EAID PGOV RW |
09KIGALI634 | RWANDAN PM DESCRIBES IMPROVING RWANDA-DRC TIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 30, Rwanda's prime minister confirmed plans for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to exchange ambassadors in the very near future and said Rwanda sought to strengthen its economic partnership with both the DRC and with countries belonging to the Ea [...] | 2009-10-07 07:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM ECON EAID CG RW |
09KIGALI644 | IRAN DEMARCHE AND BRIEFING DELIVERED [...] (C) On October 7, polcouns briefed Mr. Ben Rutsinga, MFA's Director of Europe, Americas, UN and International Organizations on the outcome of the P5 1 talks and solicited Rwandan GOR support for the dual-track approach, as requested reftel. Rutsinga was generally supportive, noting that it wa [...] | 2009-10-07 16:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR RW |
09KIGALI663 | RWANDA REPORTS 9 PERCENT GDP GROWTH; IMF UNSURE [...] (U) Rwandan Minister for Finance and Economic Planing James Musoni told the local press October 14, that the economy grew 9 percent for the first two quarters of 2009. This is almost double earlier estimates by the government and the IMF of 5.3 percent annual growth. Musoni attributed the gr [...] | 2009-10-14 15:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN RW |
09KIGALI672 | KAGAME LOOKS SET TO WIN 2010 VOTE; NEW PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rwanda is set to hold presidential elections in August 2010. President Paul Kagame is likely to run and win a second seven-year term, and his party dominates the national political landscape. Despite this, several small new political parties and figures have emerged in recent [...] | 2009-10-15 16:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EAID KJUS RW |
09KIGALI679 | ICTR PROSECUTOR ON WORK, TRANSFER OF CASES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) chief prosecutor Hassan Jallow briefed Kigali-based diplomats October 15 on the tribunal's work, anticipated closure in 2010 and unresolved legacy issues. He intends to request transfer of some remaining cases to Rwanda, and ind [...] | 2009-10-21 06:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM ICTR UNGA TZ RW |
09KIGALI690 | UNGA DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] (C) Polcouns delivered reftel demarches on October 26 to Rwandan MFA's Director General of Europe, Americas and International Organization Affairs Mr. Ben Rutsinga. Regarding Ref A items, Rutsinga said that in 2007 and earlier Rwanda abstained from voting on "no-action motions," but changed it [...] | 2009-10-26 16:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA UN RW |
09KIGALI694 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION UNVEILS PLANS FOR 2010 VOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rwandan election officials briefed the donor community October 15 on preparations for Rwanda's next presidential elections, set for August 9, 2010. Outstanding funding needs are modest at $1.2m, and the electoral process will feature a twenty-day campaign period. Parliament is [...] | 2009-10-27 16:43:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID RW |
09KIGALI699 | GOVT ALLOWING OPPOSITION BREATHING SPACE, SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 20, Internal Security Minister Harerimana told Emboffs the Rwandan government was purposely not applying the law to the full extent and was allowing new opposition parties some latitude to form and operate. He cautioned that politicians could easily manipulate many Rw [...] | 2009-10-28 16:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS RW |
09KIGALI700 | PARTNERING FOR GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 10:54:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD RW |
09KIGALI701 | NIGER DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 16:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL USAU NI RW |
09KIGALI716 | SIERRA LEONE CONVICTS ARRIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 17:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM RW |
09KIGALI717 | POLICE CLOSE GREEN PARTY MEETING, CITING INSECURITY [...] (C) On October 25, police suspended a convention organized by the opposition Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR),after a member of the audience disrupted the proceedings. According to a reliable observer, minutes after the party secretary-general opened the meeting, a man in the approxima [...] | 2009-11-03 17:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM RW |
09KIGALI718 | IMF LOWERS GDP GROWTH ESTIMATE TO 3.7 PERCENT [...] (SBU) IMF Resident Representative Dmitry Gershenson told Emboff November 2 the IMF has lowered its estimate of Rwanda's GDP growth in 2009 from 5.6 percent to 3.7 percent. The new estimate follows consultations between the Government of Rwanda (GOR) and an IMF mission led by Catherine McAuliff [...] | 2009-11-03 17:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV RW |
09KIGALI719 | OPPOSITION FIGURE NTAGANDA TO CHALLENGE KAGAME AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 25, members of the fledgling Parti Social-Imberakuri (PS-Imberakuri) party voted overwhelmingly to nominate party founder Bertrand Ntaganda, an ethnic Hutu lawyer, to be their candidate for Rwanda's 2010 presidential elections. Ntaganda was a founding member of the P [...] | 2009-11-04 06:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI720 | EAC MEETING - KIGALI NOV 09 [...] (SBU) The Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on November 3, 2009 to discuss several incidents that occurred in the past month. 2. (SBU) On October 07, 2009 during an Marine Security Guard (MSG) function, a man approached a local guard and asked several specific questions in regards to t [...] | 2009-11-04 06:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC KMSG |
09KIGALI721 | GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 12:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL RW |
09KIGALI722 | POSSIBLE SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITY ON EMBASSY KIGALI [...] (S) SUMMARY: Clusters of incidents sometimes have a more profound effect and come into focus after the group has formed. Four recent incidents in Rwanda show a possible relationship and are reported in this cable. 1) On October 7, at a Marine function a Local Guard was approached and asked s [...] | 2009-11-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC KMSG |
09KIGALI735 | CONGOLESE AMBASSADOR ARRIVES IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) Norbert Nkulu from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) arrived in Kigali November 2, to begin an assignment as the DRC's ambassador to Rwanda--the first since Presidents Kabila and Kagame took office. Ambassador met Nkulu on November 5, at a reception during which Nkulu warmly en [...] | 2009-11-06 09:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CG RW |
09KIGALI736 | DASD HUDDLESTON AND RWANDAN DEFENSE REVIEW [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Huddleston met October 26 with Rwandan Minister of Defense Gatsinzi and senior Rwandan Defense Force officers, including Chief of Defense (CHOD) Kabarebe. The Rwandans thanked DASD for USG cooperation on peacekeeping and highlighted the Rwan [...] | 2009-11-06 11:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS MASS PINR CG RW |
09KIGALI74 | WORLD BANK SEEKS DONOR SUPPORT FOR NEW [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 6. 2. (SBU) World Bank (Bank) Country Representative Victoria Kwakwa convened a meeting January 30 seeking donor support for a proposed new Emergency demobilization and Reintegration Project with the Government of Rwanda (GOR). A team of Bank offi [...] | 2009-02-02 16:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PINS MOPS RW |
09KIGALI740 | RWANDA APPROVES BIOFUELS PROJECT [...] (U) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) on October 28 approved a U.S.private sector-sponsored $40 million biofuels project in eastern Rwanda. American-owned Eco-Fuel Global and British-owned Eco-Fuel Positive will jointly develop 10,000 hectares of marginal land for production of jatropha and buil [...] | 2009-11-09 06:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ENRG ECON EAGR RW |
09KIGALI747 | GOR RELEASES 2009-2012 AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN [...] (U) The Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) on November 13 provided a copy of its 2009-2012 investment plan to post. The investment plan is the financing component of MINAGRI's second overall Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PSTA II). The PSTA II implements Rwanda's Comprehe [...] | 2009-11-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON RW |
09KIGALI749 | REFUGEE ISSUES IN RWANDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Rwanda hosts 53,000 Congolese refugees in three refugee camps and 2,000 urban refugees from various nearby countries. Standards of living in the camps are high, although land and sanitation issues are sometimes problematic. Although relations between Rwanda and the DRC have impr [...] | 2009-11-13 12:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV CG RW |
09KIGALI75 | RWANDA REACTION: PRESIDENT'S INTERVIEW WITH [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and interview transcript to Rwandan Mufti Sheikh Saleh Habimana on February 2. Habimana said he hopes the United States will fully utilize the "opportunity" presented by President Obama's election to engage with the Muslim world, and make the strong [...] | 2009-02-03 08:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL |
09KIGALI756 | GREEN PARTY PLANS 3RD ATTEMPT TO HOLD [...] (C) On November 6, polcouns met with Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) leader Frank Habineza, secretary-general Charles Kabanda and a visiting Amcit Green party activist from California. Habineza said his still-unregistered party was running short on funds (he himself had had to take ou [...] | 2009-11-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI765 | JUDGE FINES EDITOR FOR INVASION OF PRIVACY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13 a judge found John Bosco Gasasira, the editor/journalist of a local newspaper, guilty of invasion of privacy and defamation, fined him $2,200 dollars and awarded costs and damages of $4,800. The sentence allayed Gasasira's supporters' earlier concerns that he mig [...] | 2009-11-18 15:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI77 | RWANDA ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (U) This edition of the Rwanda Economic Review covers: -- 2008 Tourism revenues up 55 percent over 2007, but slow start to 2009 -- Economy grows 10 percent in 2008 -- Rwandatel to invest $45 million to expand market share, MTN launches BlackBerry -- Construction begins on new Hydro Powe [...] | 2009-02-05 13:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIDE OPIC RW |
09KIGALI770 | NEW DRC AMBASSADOR DESCRIBES MISSION, PRAISES GOR [...] (C) In a November 19 call, new Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ambassador Norbert Nkulu described in warm terms his reception by Rwandan officials and what he described as a large and welcoming Congolese community here - many of whom met him at the airport. He recounted with visible pl [...] | 2009-11-20 06:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PINR PHUM CG RW |
09KIGALI773 | 2009 RWANDAN FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION SURVEY [...] (U) Summary: The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda released the 2009 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey. The survey analyzes nutrition trends over time by examining the extent, depth and causes of food and nutrition insecurity and vulnerabilit [...] | 2009-11-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SENV RW |
09KIGALI775 | CEPGL STAFF DESCRIBE REGIONAL GROUPINGS TO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Economic Community of Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL) senior staff on November 10 briefed U.S. Great Lakes Special Advisor Dr. Howard Wolpe on CEPGL activities in the areas of peace and security, energy, and transportation, as well as on how the CEPGL coordinates with other regio [...] | 2009-11-23 10:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD EAID MARR CG BU RW |
09KIGALI78 | RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] (U) In this edition: - Efforts to Form New Political Party Continue - Ombudsman on Corruption - EU Final Election Report Issued - Intel Chiefs Meet in Rwanda New Party Holds Assembly and Press Conference --------------------------------------------- 2. (C) Supporters of the n [...] | 2009-02-05 13:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI781 | RWANDAN AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT PLAN BASED ON CAADP [...] (U) Summary: Rwanda's second overall Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PSTA II) is the basis for the Government of Rwanda's (GOR) draft Agriculture Investment Plan (see reftel). This draft investment plan addresses each of the four Comprehensive African Agricultural Developm [...] | 2009-11-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR SENV RW |
09KIGALI782 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 16:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN RW |
09KIGALI783 | CIVIL SOCIETY ADVOCATES AGAINST CRIMINALIZING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A coalition of Rwandan civil society representatives met on November 18 to sign a petition urging legislators to remove two articles from the draft penal code, which is currently in parliament. According to the coalition, the proposed articles would criminalize homosexuality and [...] | 2009-11-24 16:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI KCRM RW |
09KIGALI784 | WESTERN PROVINCE FOCUSES ON AGRICULTURAL REFORMS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 17, local officials in Western Province said they were focused on implementing agricultural reforms and improving delivery of basic services. Lack of financing and inadequate transportation infrastructure remained challenges. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On November 17, Em [...] | 2009-11-24 16:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR RW |
09KIGALI785 | CHINESE DELEGATION TO ATTEND RWANDA AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) During a November 24 meeting with USAID econoff, Chinese Embassy economic counselor Wang Qin said a delegation consisting of agriculture experts and Chinese Export-Import Bank representatives would attend the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) conference schedule [...] | 2009-11-24 16:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR RW |
09KIGALI786 | KITCHEN GARDENS INCREASE FOOD SECURITY OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: American Refugee Committee (ARC) has implemented a project to improve food production by and for vulnerable families in the Kiziba refugee camp in western Rwanda, using grant funds from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration's 2009 Julia Taft Fund for Refugees. On Novemb [...] | 2009-11-25 06:18:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL EAID CG RW |
09KIGALI787 | RWANDA IMPROVES RANKING IN CORRUPTION PERCEPTION [...] (U) A November 17 report released by Transparency International (TI) ranks Rwanda 89th out of 180 countries surveyed in its 2009 Corruption Perception Index. Last year, TI ranked Rwanda 102 out of 180 countries. The new ranking places Rwanda as the "least corrupt" in East Africa and among th [...] | 2009-11-25 06:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON PGOV RW |
09KIGALI788 | CHINESE DELEGATION PLANS TO ATTEND DEC. 7-8 [...] (SBU) During a November 24 meeting with USAID econoff, Chinese Embassy economic counselor Wang Qin said a delegation consisting of agriculture experts and Chinese Export-Import Bank representatives would attend the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) conference schedule [...] | 2009-11-25 06:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID RW |
09KIGALI789 | TOUGH ANTI-GOVERNMENT RHETORIC IS A STAPLE OF [...] (C) Anti-Government of Rwanda (GOR) rhetoric coupled with personal criticism of President Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) party are the staples of Rwanda's Kinyarwanda-language popular press. A review of local language tabloids, all with small press runs but relatively wide reade [...] | 2009-11-25 06:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KPAO PREL CG RW |
09KIGALI792 | UNAMID COMMANDER ON DARFUR CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Commander, Rwandan Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba, told Ambassador in an impromptu airport meeting November 10 that the UNAMID mission in Darfur was "a complicated challenge" and that the GOR was absolutely committed to sustaining t [...] | 2009-11-27 11:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL PINR RW SU |
09KIGALI793 | GOR DISCUSSES REGIONAL ECONOMICS & SECURITY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Rwandan officials led by Health Minister Sezibera met on November 9 with U.S. Great Lakes Special Advisor Dr. Howard Wolpe and urged continued military pressure against the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC [...] | 2009-11-27 14:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID MARR PINS KCRM CG RW |
09KIGALI796 | RWANDAN CHIEF OF DEFENSE BACKS U.S. REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one meeting with Rwandan Chief of Defense General James Kabarebe November 17, Ambassador hailed the arrival of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) first post-genocide Ambassador, Norbert Nkulu. Kabarebe agreed that it was a vital forward step and added that [...] | 2009-11-30 12:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PREL KPKO CG RW |
09KIGALI80 | DRC-GOR JOINT OPERATION SCORES SUCCESS, IS EXTENDED [...] (C ) Summary. Senior Rwandans report that President Kabila has asked Government of Rwanda (GOR) troops to remain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) until February 28. A senior Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) officer asked if the U.S. had agreed with Kabila,s request to place U.S. milit [...] | 2009-02-05 17:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINS PGOV RW |
09KIGALI802 | RWANDA AND FRANCE RESTORE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS THE [...] (C) Summary: The Governments of Rwanda (GOR) and France (GOF) announced November 29 that they had agreed to restore fully diplomatic relations between the two countries. Relations were ruptured in November 2006 after a French judge indicted senior GOR officials on charges - vehemently reject [...] | 2009-12-01 06:28:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS FR RW |
09KIGALI803 | RWANDA JOINS COMMONWEALTH [...] (U) Summary: On November 28th, Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Trinidad and Tobago decided to admit Rwanda as their group's newest member. Although concrete benefits to membership appear modest, Rwandan officials anticipate expanded business and trade opportunities and welcome the [...] | 2009-12-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV RW |
09KIGALI804 | RWANDA SPECIAL SELF HELP PROGRAM: OBLIGATION [...] (U) Summary: On November 16, 2009 Ambassador Symington signed grant agreements with ten beneficiaries for a total of $75,000 for the Ambassador's Self Help Program for FY 2009. Post has fully obligated all of the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program funds in FY 2009. 2. (U) Project(s) su [...] | 2009-12-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AFIN EGOV RW |
09KIGALI806 | PRESIDENT KAGAME OPEN TO HAVING INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) In a meeting with Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame and Minister of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp thanked the Government of Rwanda for accepting prisoners transferred from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, underscoring the importance [...] | 2009-12-01 13:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL RW |
09KIGALI808 | AMBASSADOR RAPP RAISES ICTR CASE TRANSFERS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp raised with Rwanda's Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga the issue of transferring cases for trial in Rwanda from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In a discussion on the margins of a November meeting in Kigali of pr [...] | 2009-12-01 15:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL RW |
09KIGALI809 | UNAMID COMMANDER DETAILS DARFUR CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Commander, Rwandan Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba, told Ambassador in an impromptu airport meeting November 10 that the UNAMID mission in Darfur was "a complicated challenge" and that the GOR was absolutely committed to sustaining t [...] | 2009-12-01 15:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL PINR RW SU |
09KIGALI812 | LIBERAL PARTY ORIGINS, VIOLENCE OF 1990S, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Youth Protais Mitali, leader of the Liberal Party (PL),said on November 19 that his party seeks to promote justice, human rights and economic development by developing policy ideas and attempting to convince other political figures of their merits. As head of a pa [...] | 2009-12-02 15:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
09KIGALI822 | RWANDAN CABINET SHUFFLE, NEW FOREIGN AND FINANCE [...] (C) Summary. In the third cabinet shuffle of the year, President Kagame replaced his Foreign and Finance ministers and rearranged cabinet responsibilities for other ministers. The new Foreign Minister, Louise Mushikwabo, had been Minister of Information. She came back to Rwanda and became In [...] | 2009-12-03 13:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RW |
09KIGALI823 | RWANDA'S NEW CABINET LINEUP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 14:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR RW |
09KIGALI827 | NON-SCALPEL VASECTOMY SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID's Capacity and Twubakane (Building Together) projects, implemented by the Government of Rwanda (GOR) and U.S. private voluntary organization IntraHealth, have successfully introduced vasectomy in Rwanda. Since 2008, over 445 men have undergone the procedure in 11 of Rwand [...] | 2009-12-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON RW |
09KIGALI828 | "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-04 13:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL UN RW |
09KIGALI829 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY REVIEWS FOOD SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin reviewed food security, infrastructure needs and the impact of the global economic downturn on Rwanda with senior government officials, members of the private sector and international donor organizations October 29-November 1. Rwanda's [...] | 2009-12-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR EAID EINV PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI830 | RWANDAN VIEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Many Rwandans are aware of the negative impacts of climate change on their country and are taking a proactive approach, both domestically and internationally, to mitigate against those impacts. The government of Rwanda (GOR) is aggressively promoting "clean and green" energy (Ref [...] | 2009-12-04 14:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID ECON RW |
09KIGALI835 | RWANDAN COMPREHENSIVE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 6, 2009, the African Union/New Partnership for Africa's Development (AU/NePAD) held a Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) post-compact review of Rwanda's 2009-2012 Agriculture Sector Investment Plan to raise agricultural productivity and reduc [...] | 2009-12-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD PREL EAID AU RW |
09KIGALI847 | RWANDA CAADP POST-COMPACT MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 7-8 December 2009, the Government of Rwanda hosted Africa's first Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Post-Compact HiQuF[0Fe&Zi. Stakeholders at the meeting endorsed Rwanda's Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture and applauded the Gover [...] | 2009-12-14 07:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD PREL EAID AU RW |
09KIGALI856 | BIO REPORT: MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY MONIQUE [...] (SBU) Monique Nsanzabaganwa is the Minister of Trade and Industry. She was born in 1971 in Muhororo, Ruhango District. She received an MA (cum laude) in economics from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2002, winning the Department of Economics' award for best master's student. Sh [...] | 2009-12-15 13:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON ETRD RW |
09KIGALI857 | SENATE PRESIDENT OPPOSES ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 4 meeting with Ambassador, Senate president Vincent Biruta said he was opposed to anti-homosexual language in the current draft penal code, and he did not expect such language to pass. Biruta said his party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD),would soon decide [...] | 2009-12-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS RW |
09KIGALI858 | PSP PARTY IN REBUILDING MODE FOLLOWING LEADERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of the small PSP party is a political unknown who is new to her position and has inherited a party that is still recovering from the departure of its former leader, a senator and high-profile figure, earlier in 2009. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) During a December 2 meeting [...] | 2009-12-15 14:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI859 | NKUNDA'S ATTORNEY CONTINUES TO ARGUE HIS CLIENT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Canadian defense attorney for detained CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda told Emboffs December 9 that Rwanda's Supreme Court had agreed to hold a hearing on January 13, 2010 about the legality of Nkunda's detention. The attorney claimed to have had no direct communication with Nkunda [...] | 2009-12-16 12:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS MARR CG RW |
09KIGALI86 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON JOINT OPERATIONS AND FOUR PLUS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali briefed the diplomatic corps on February 9 on the continuing joint military operations in the eastern Congo and the 4 Plus 4 talks held February 5-6 in Gisenyi between Rwanda and the DRC. Drawing from the 4 Plus 4 Joint Communique distributed at the b [...] | 2009-02-10 16:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RW |
09KIGALI860 | MINISTRY OF HEALTH LOBBIES AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a December 7 heath sector meeting, Ministry of Health (MOH) permanent secretary, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, and National AIDS Control Commission executive director, Dr. Anita Asiimwe, criticized strongly draft legislation in parliament that would criminalize homosexuality, and said [...] | 2009-12-16 14:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KHIV RW |
09KIGALI861 | REFUGEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF RW |
09KIGALI862 | GETTING TO KNOW SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The president of the Rwandan Socialist Party, an intellectual and Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) veteran whose family was killed during Rwanda's political violence of the late 1950s, is strongly pro-American and critical of China. He leads a small party which is aligned with the [...] | 2009-12-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
09KIGALI870 | RWANDA-FRANCE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ON FAST TRACK [...] (C) Visiting French MFA Director General of Administration Stephane Romatet told Ambassador on December 17 that the Quai d'Orsay planned to have a full-time political officer in Rwanda by early January, 2010 and an ambassador here later that month. He said France intends to start quickly, at [...] | 2009-12-18 12:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON PGOV CG RW |
09KIGALI871 | RWANDA NAMES AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE [...] (SBU) During a December 16 cabinet meeting, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) designated Jacques Kabare to serve as Rwanda's next ambassador to France, less than a month after the two countries announced their intention to reestablish diplomatic ties. Since approximately 2005, Kabare has headed [...] | 2009-12-18 12:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
09KIGALI874 | RPF FLEXES ITS MUSCLES DURING CONGRESS, CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 12, approximately 2500 Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) members from across Rwanda held a party congress in Kigali to hear remarks by Rwandan president Paul Kagame and other senior figures and to elect individuals to fill party leadership slots. RPF rank and file n]F 6v [...] | 2009-12-22 06:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RW |
09KIGALI894 | RWANDA 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU)There were no acts of international terrorism in Rwanda in 2009. The Rwandan government worked to improve border control measures and prepared to create a financial investigations unit, in accordance with anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing legislation adopted the previous [...] | 2009-12-31 12:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC RW |
09KIGALI896 | TRENDS IN RWANDA PERTAINING TO SEXUAL ORIENTATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is no Rwandan law against homosexuality. The constitution provides for equality of all citizens but does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In December 2009, following lobbying and statements by key government figures, the lower chamber o [...] | 2009-12-31 12:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI91 | RWANDA ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORC RW |
09KIGALI98 | RWANDA ON REVIEW CONFERENCE WORKING GROUP SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 06:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNHRC PHUM RW |
10KIGALI117 | KIGALI GRENADE ATTACKS ADD TO TENSIONS [...] (SBU) On the evening of February 19, three near-simultaneous grenade attacks/explosions occurred in and near downtown Kigali. The attacks targeted a restaurant/supermarket, a multiple-story office building, and the city's main bus/taxi station, killing two individuals and reportedly injuring [...] | 2010-02-22 18:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC ASEC RW |
10KIGALI120 | RWANDA, DRC SIGN REFUGEE REPATRIATION AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After much deliberation, the governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed repatriation agreements at the conclusion of a February 16-17 tripartite meeting with the UNHCR in Kigali to discuss the voluntary repatriation of refugees in the two countrie [...] | 2010-02-23 15:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EAID CG RW |
10KIGALI122 | RWANDA EAGER TO TAKE GREATER OWNERSHIP OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 4-5 annual meeting with development partners to review progress and efforts to make aid more effective, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) proposed to limit the number of sectors in which each donor country works in order to reduce transaction costs and risks of d [...] | 2010-02-25 08:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR EINV SOCI ECON KMCA RW |
10KIGALI127 | IRGC SANCTIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 10:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN RW |
10KIGALI17 | GRENADE ATTACKS/INCIDENTS IN RWANDA - NO SIGN OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In late December, three hand grenades exploded at bars in Butare, causing some minor injuries. On January 4 and 6, in two separate incidents, children in northeastern Rwanda playing with unexploded grenades they had found accidentally set them off, killing two children and woun [...] | 2010-01-08 13:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC RW |
10KIGALI18 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE: ORDINARY CITIZENS PUSH THEIR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During Rwanda's December 10-11 National Dialogue, broadcast via television, radio and streaming internet video to a national and international Rwandan audience, President Kagame criticized sharply several ministers and other officials over mismanaged or ineffective programs in [...] | 2010-01-08 13:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC RW |
10KIGALI22 | DEMOBILIZATION OFFICIAL EXPLORES NTAGANDA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jean Sayinzoga, Chairman of Rwanda's Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) told visiting EU Great Lakes Special Envoy Roeland van de Geer and Deputy to the U.S. Special Advisor for the Great Lakes (and former Ambassador to Burundi) James Yellin on December 14 that if [...] | 2010-01-11 16:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS PINS KPKO |
10KIGALI24 | NSS OFFICIAL WARNS AGAINST NTAGANDA ARREST, CALLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Joseph Nzabamwita, head of the National Security Service (NSS)'s Department of External Intelligence and Security, on December 14, pressed visiting EU Great Lakes Special Envoy Roeland van de Geer and Deputy to the U.S. Special Advisor for the Great Lakes James Yellin for Western [...] | 2010-01-11 16:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS PINS KPKO |
10KIGALI33 | CIVIL SOCIETY ADVOCATES AGAINST CRIMINALIZING SEX [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A coalition of civil society representatives met January 5 to discuss an article in the draft penal code criminalizing sex workers. The lower house adopted the penal code in December and will send it to the Senate after translating it into French and English. The article carries [...] | 2010-01-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
10KIGALI34 | HIGH-LEVEL FRENCH, DUTCH AND GERMAN DELEGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Over the last five days, senior officials from France, the Netherlands and Germany conducted multi-day visits to Rwanda. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner used his visit to cement diplomatic relations that France and Rwanda officially restored in late 2009. He also prepare [...] | 2010-01-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS RW |
10KIGALI41 | RWANDA 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) The Government of Rwanda recognizes the private sector is an essential engine of development and welcomes foreign investment in policy and in practice. As a result of reforms implemented in 2008 and 2009, the World Bank recognized Rwanda as the world,s top reformer in adopting business re [...] | 2010-01-22 07:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR RW |
10KIGALI51 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - RWANDAN ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) President Kagame has accepted A/S Carson's invitation to meet at the AU summit (reftel). Government of Rwanda is still working out details on the trip but has provided post the following information: Composition of delegation - President Paul Kagame, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwab [...] | 2010-01-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP AORC XA RW |
10KIGALI53 | RWANDAIR SIGNS WITH BOEING, EXPANDS FLEET [...] (C) Rwandair signed in December 2009 a contract with Boeing to buy two new 737-800 aircraft for $84 million. At the signing celebration on December 17, the Rwandair CEO praised Embassy efforts supporting the negotiation. The new aircraft will feature innovative "Dreamliner" interiors and are [...] | 2010-01-26 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD RW |
10KIGALI54 | RWANDA "FRAGILE" BUT POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parti Democrate Centriste (PDC) leaders told Emboffs January 6 that while the political situation in Rwanda fifteen years after the genocide remains "fragile," political parties can operate more easily and freely today, and the PDC is considering running as an independent party [...] | 2010-01-27 17:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
10KIGALI55 | CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS RWANDA [...] (SBU) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister for African Affairs Zhai Jun visited Rwanda January 25-27. During his stay, he met with President Kagame, Foreign Minister Mushikiwabo, other senior officials and businessmen. He also visited the main genocide memorial at Gisozi as well as sites outside of [...] | 2010-01-27 17:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID CH CG RW |
10KIGALI65 | NO EVIDENCE OF CHILD SOLDIER RECRUITMENT FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: G/TIP officer Rachel Yousey, AF/RSA officer Learned Dees and Emboffs met January 21-27 with MONUC, UNHCR, Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC),the Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC),and visited the Muhazi Rehabilitation Center for former child soldiers [...] | 2010-02-02 17:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM PREF PGOV PREL MARR MOPS CG RW |
10KIGALI75 | POLICE ARREST PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL INGABIRE'S AIDE [...] (SBU) Police on February 6 arrested Joseph Ntawangundi, an aide to would-be presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire, on charges that a gacaca court in 2007 tried and convicted him in absentia for genocide-related crimes. Ingabire's camp shortly afterward released a press statement, claiming [...] | 2010-02-09 08:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM PINS RW |
10KIGALI76 | INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER AWAITS VERDICT IN DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Editor and journalist Didas Gasana and journalist Richard Kayigamba of the independent Kinyarwanda-language weekly newspaper Umuseso appeared in court January 27 on charges of defamation and invasion of privacy over an article they published alleging an affair between the mayor [...] | 2010-02-09 09:42:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KMCA MCC PHUM KPAO RW |
10KIGALI9 | UDPR PARTY LEADER ON RWANDAN POLITICS, LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of Rwanda's small UDPR party, who is a member of parliament, told polcouns December 30 that Rwanda needed strong and stable government and economic growth. Rwanda's parliament was working hard to pass legislation related the East African Community (EAC),he said; howev [...] | 2010-01-07 08:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD PREL RW |
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