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...
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...
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...
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...
As I go to press, more than 264,000 people across the globe have died from the coronavirus. Over 1.2m have tested positive. So far Africa’s figures are low, still under 2,000 dead, depending on who is counting, or testing. Today the US surpassed...
Trump’s White House is bizarre as it has been since he assumed office, three years ago. But this coronavirus is no laughing matter, and Trump has much to answer to for his mishandling of the pandemic and the loss of thousands of American lives. In...
For the record, lest I be misunderstood, this coronavirus is deadly and should not be taken lightly. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a pandemic — simply defined as “prevalent over a whole country or the world.” And some...
Donald Trump’s presidency has been a disaster from the word go, and will go down as the worst in the history of this Republic thus far. There is no moment Trump can ever rise to. He only sinks to his most base nature. He lies with a straight face...
17th National Retreat. Photo Credit Flickr (Paul Kagame) At the just concluded UMWIHERERO 17 at Gabiro where Ministers and heads of government departments, civil society, the Youths and the economic sector leaders meet every year to assess progress...
“Only in Africa” was once a cliche, but times are changing, and fast. This was in reference to the incredibly bizarre stories spewing out of the continent that you did not see anywhere else. And there were no consequences, hence the dismissive...