If you look at a map of Africa you could be forgiven for assuming that the actions of the President of the tiny, landlocked country of Rwanda are not hugely consequential on the international stage.

On July 4, 2025, at the 31st celebration of Rwanda’s Liberation Day, President Paul Kagame stood before the nation, not just to commemorate a victory, but to issue a wake-up call. His speech was less ...

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

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

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