The Rwandan Patriot

  By his own narrations, Dr David Himbara called it quits in January 2010, left Rwanda. Himbara’s entitlement and ego couldn’t allow him to accept that President Kagame didn’t depend on his sole counsel. As a head of state, Kagame takes decisions based on advice from a wide variety of sources. It is the reason he has the security and civilian apparatus at his disposal. All well-meaning heads of state do. Himbara’s writings say it all about him. He couldn’t work in a system and chose to quit. Himbara’s latest about a government scheme bringing Zimbabwean education professionals to Rwanda is a continued manifestation of that arrogance. Let’s look at the record. If Kagame had sought Himbara’s advice, if he had to anyway, we wouldn’t be having Carnegie Mellon University Africa, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), several others, and soon to be Coventry University. The US set up Green Card purposely to attract th...

  British interior minister or home secretary Suella Braverman is quietly attempting to hand herself new powers to clamp down on the government’s political opponents, civil right advocates have warned. This in a country which brands itself as a democracy and first world.  The home secretary has tabled a last-minute amendment to a widely criticised anti-protest bill that would allow her to apply for injunctions against anyone she deems ‘likely’ to carry out protests that could cause ‘serious disruption’ to ‘key national infrastructure’, prevent access to ‘essential’ goods or services, or have a ‘serious adverse effect on public safety’. The proposal would also give police the power to arrest anyone they suspect to be breaching such an injunction. Leading human rights groups say that the Public Order Bill, which is set to reach its final stages in the Commons today, would align the UK’s anti-protest laws with those in Russia and Belarus. The bill includes new powers, such as pro...