Willis Shalita

RWANDA NATIONAL POLICE – Exemplary conduct, noted

There are fewer organs of the State that are more important and critical than the National Police, and how it functions says a lot about the state of our governance — our leaders, institutions and our policies. CP JB Kabera Handed over the money to...

TRUMP MUST FALL NOV 3, TO SALVAGE DEMOCRACY

We are five days away from electing the next President of these United States, and no election has ever been more important than this in the history of the Republic. It is a vote for the Soul of the Nation, because a second Trump term means four...

UN-MASKING R– USESABAGINA’S MANY FACES

Since his voluntary arrival in Kigali, much dizzying noise has been made about Rusesabagina’s apprehension. Much of it, if not all, should be ignored. It is not only baseless but sheer nonsensical chatter by Rusesabagina’s defenders who are bent on...

MY LAST ENCOUNTER WITH R– USESABAGINA

In the words of Bob Marley, the legendary Jamaican music sensation, “the harder they come, the harder they fall.” I last encountered Rusesabagina on January 10 this year in the city of San Antonio where he resides when he is not gallivanting all...

CASE AGAINST FÉLICIEN KABUGA— a slam dunk

After 26 years on the run as a fugitive from justice, Félicien Kabuga (85) was apprehended in James Bond style in a Paris suburb in broad daylight on May 16, 2020. Thrilling news indeed, in Rwanda and across the world where Kabuga’s impunity was a...

KAMALA HARRIS: Trump has got The Blues

The other day, former Vice President Joe Biden announced his selection of Sen Kamala Harris (D) of California as his running mate in this year’s presidential election to be held November 3. This is big news, and here is why. Donald Trump is scared...

WAR DRUMS FROM BURUNDI DON’T SCARE US

One would have thought that change at the helm would signal a fresh start for relations with our neighbor Burundi following Pierre Nkurunziza’s sudden death due to an alleged heart attack. Reasonable minds will disagree, not that cause of death...

DECIPHERING NKURUNZIZA’S DEATH – Hope abounds

Pierre Nkurunziza,55, Burundi’s mercurial leader un-expectedly died this week leaving a shocked nation in turmoil soon after a contentious general election in which his party, CNDD-FDD, allegedly won, hands down. Allegedly, because international...

FELICIEN KABUGA – The Butcher of Byumba

I am not as excited about Kabuga’s arrest as probably every Munyarwanda of good conscience is, for several reasons. Kabuga’s arrest raises more questions than it answers. Second, at 84, sickly, severely diabetic and mentally decaying, he is really...