Mysterious Deaths, Bad Statistics & Showdown With France - Latest From The Kagame Republic

In the past two weeks, two perfectly healthy Rwandans died mysteriously in Kagame's republic. First to perish was Senator Jean de Dieu Mucyo. Mucyo died on October 3, 2016, reportedly after "falling down the stairs" at Parliament.
Then today (October 10), we learnt that businessman Vénuste Rwabukamba also mysteriously died after "shooting himself".
Meanwhile new statistics on Rwanda are equally gloomy. Data from the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) paint the following picture of Rwanda's external trade in first half of 2016:
* Imports - US$1.3 billion;
* Exports - US$325 million;
This disastrous trade imbalance explains why the currency is falling - trading at US$1 = Rwf830.
From the World Bank, we learn that foreign investment into East Africa in 2015 was as follows:
* US$323 million into Rwanda;
* US$1 billion in Uganda;
* US$1.4 billion to Kenya;
* US$1.9 billion for Tanzania.
And then Kagame had a word for France, which has apparently reopened its investigation into the events leading to Rwanda's genocide. Said Kagame:
"If starting all over again is a showdown we will have a showdown, there is no problem about that."
Kagame's republic remains synonymous with mysterious deaths, bad statistics, and showdowns.
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David Himbara

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OLD STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY COLD WAR: Vladimir Putin, Bashar-al-Assad, Tayyip Erdogan vs. NATO/USA

Rwandan American lawyer and former National University of Rwanda professor Dr. Charles Kambanda

Whether one calls it "another round of the cold war" or "a continuum of the cold war", the NATO/US vs China/Russia axis relationship bears all the chilly characteristics the cold war. The most bloody cold war front line so far is Syria, not to ignore Burundi.

December 2015, Turkey conspired with its NATO allies to down Russia's fighter jet. It's not in dispute now that Turkey downed the Russian fighter jet from Syria as Russia was fighting to " liberate" Syria from NATO and their proxy Syrian " rebels". President Vladimir Putin responded to Turkey's act of downing the Russian fighter jet by (a) imposing punitive economic sanctions against Turkey and (b) promising that Turkey and its European allies would pay the price for downing the Russian fighter jet. That was then!

Today, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan met his counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, in what many analysts rightly call a diplomatic reset. The two leaders met to " talk business" after Erdogan apologized to Putin for the NATO/US wrong advice that led Turkey to down Russia's fighter jet. Putin accepted the apology "for the good of the two nations"; Turkey and Russia.

Erdogan believes that while he was working with NATO/US for regime change in Syria, NATO/US were planning his own downfall through a Coup which Erdogan claims to have defeated.
Turkey is strategic for NATO/US cold warfare. Analysts argue that without Turkey's full cooperation, given Germany's cold feet in the current cold war, NATO cannot do much. The war in Syria stands in a balance for NATO and the US. If Turkey joins Russia, Syria could as well fall to Russia. Whether Russia can keep both Bashar-al-Assad ( Syria) and Tayyip Erdogab ( Turkey) in power against NATO/US interests is another complex issue which dwells mostly on strategies and tactics the major cold war protagonists contemplate.

If Russia consolidated power in Turkey and Syria, thereby defeating NATO /US in Syria, would NATO /US concede defeats in Syria and talk peace with Assad? If NATO/US talked peace with Assad, what would be the fate for NATO/US sponsored rebels in Syrian? Would sending the NATO/US sponsored rebels to the International Criminal Court be one of the possibilities if NATO/US struck a deal with Assad? If NATO/US chose to fight on, would NATO/US consider supporting " rebels" in Turkey thereby opening another cold war front line; taking on Putin and Erdogan even before NATO/US are done with Putin and Assad in Syria? Will Turkey pull out of NATO? What's the future of NATO as a cold war mentality " union"?

On June 7th, 2016, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the world by surprise when he " commended" President Putin's efforts to bring peace in Syria. Netanyahu's shocking comments came shortly before he visited President Putin for a third time in less that a year. Will Israel be a spectator in this crazy regional " re-positioning" game? Would Israel strike an independent deal with Putin, Erdogan and Assad ? Where would such a deal leave Israel/NATO/US relationship?

Will the cold war battle in Africa - Burundi - intensify or the superpowers will abandon the Burundi front line for future complex cold war tactics and strategies? Do the ordinary people who perish and/or bear the inhumane effects of these senseless wars between superpowers matter ?

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Kwezi - Africa's Cartoon Superhero

Most comic book superheroes are Europeans or white Americans but one artist in South Africa has been trying to change that.
"Kwezi" (star in Xhosa and Zulu) is the brainchild of Loyiso Mkize, who describes it as a coming-of-age story about finding one's heritage.
He's been speaking to the BBC about his work in visual art and why he feels Africa needs to have its own superheroes.

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Who Taught You to Hate Yourself - Malcolm X

Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to, so much so that you don’t want to be around each other? No, before you come asking Mr. Muhammad does he teach hate, you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God gave you. We teach you to love the hair that God gave you.

We don’t steal, we don’t gamble, we don’t lie and we don’t cheat. That also deprives the government of revenue because you can’t get into a whiskey bottle without getting past the government seal. You can’t buy a deck of cards without getting past the government seal. Here the white man makes the whiskey then puts you in jail for getting drunk. He sells you the cards and the dice and puts you in jail when he catches you using them. So he’s against us because we fix it where he can’t catch you any more. We take the dice out of your hands and the cards out of your hands and the whiskey out of your head.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. And as Muslims the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to respect our women and to protect our women and the only time a Muslim really gets real violent is when someone goes to molest his woman.

We will kill you for our woman.



I’m making it plain, yes. We will kill you for our woman. We believe that if the white man will do whatever is necessary to see that his woman gets respect and protection then you and I will never be recognized as men until we stand up like men and place the same penalty over the head of anyone who puts his filthy hands out to put in the direction of our women.

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