On this topic, the BBC's coverage has been, for several years, astonishingly poor. Perhaps now, thanks to the Cass report, they will notice the indignation and anger of a rather large section of their audience. spectator.co.uk/article/how-di…

Transnational repression by African dictatorships targeting diasporas in the West is becoming more and more of a problem. Some Western govts and security forces are learning how to handle these challenges effectively. Others are taking their own sweet time.

A fantastic little scoop by the FT: Rwanda's own national carrier refuses to take asylum-seekers back to Rwanda because of the reputational damage it would cause. Now why would that be? ft.com/content/1251e4…

Ethiopia’s tragic path since 2018 has been strewn with assassinations and political killings. Not one has been properly or fully explained, and nobody ever credibly held to account. Here is the latest in a long, sorry line of them. RIP

I somehow don't think these are going to be the issues that will prevent the Rwanda asylum bill being realised. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The Canadian government's inquiry into foreign interference mysteriously omits Rwanda, identified by Freedom House as one the world's worst perpetrators of transnational repression. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

A while back, I adopted an M.O. If someone's only response to one of my Tweets is 'you're wrong', I block. Not because I find it offensive, it's just so incredibly lazy. I'd like to thank Rwanda's govt trolls, who rarely think of anything else to say, for making my life so easy.

My thoughts on today's remembrance of the genocide in Rwanda. spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr…

Hotelier-turned-activist Paul Rusesabagina chooses the genocide's 30th anniversary to break the silence he's observed since the US sprang him from a Kigali jail last year. 'This is not a reconciled or inclusive society. It is an authoritarian state.'
nytimes.com/2024/04/06/opi…

Excellent where-we-are-now assessment of Kagame's Rwanda by Declan Walsh in the NYTimes. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/wor…

1/ Last month, in an open letter to #Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame, the Igicumbi group of 1994 genocide survivors called on the regime to stop violent abuses against survivors and political censorship and exploitation of the official #Kwibuka commemoration. justice-survivors.com/2024/03/13/ope…

Germany's ARD TV channel examines the role sports plays in selling the Rwanda regime's message to the world.
sportschau.de/investigativ/v…

“One person says they were given five days’ notice that their family home of more than 50 years would be knocked down. The water and power were cut off after three days.”

theguardian.com/global-develop…

Just started reading a proof copy.... and it's fascinating.

I've been talking to doctors who worked in Gaza: ‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Eritrean clashes in Bern, Switzerland: swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-af…

The US advises against travel to Virunga Park in DRC and Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Washington sending a pointed message. rw.usembassy.gov/travel-advisor…

Rwanda's claim to be a multiparty democracy takes another battering. africanews.com/2024/04/01/rwa…

War and hunger force hundreds of thousands to flee Sudan

The British government's own analysis of poverty rates and malnutrition in Rwanda expose what an inappropriate place it is to send asylum seekers. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…