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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
21 May 2025
A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the…
Judi Rever
Paul Kagame’s Foray in Eastern Congo Leaves Thousands Dead and Sparks Fears of a Broader war
12 Feb 2025
Rwanda’s brutal assault on Goma has unleashed more agony for the Congolese, who are already traumatized by three decades of war.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?
29 Jan 2025
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda Advances Toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
22 Jan 2025
Rwandan colonization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) proceeds apace.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
06 Nov 2024
Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Jean Leonard Teganya Faces Torture in Rwanda
30 Oct 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime continues its lawfare against Rwandans in the Western diaspora.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Victims’ Pact: Rwanda and Israel
31 Jul 2024
Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda's Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
10 Jul 2024
Rwanda’s economic miracle is a lie.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda: “Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship” Review
08 May 2024
Ann Garrison continues her series of reviews of books important to understanding the Rwandan Genocide and Rwanda as it is today during this 30th anniversary year of the 1994 massacres.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024
12 Apr 2024
We revisit BAR’s 2017 analysis of the protection afforded Rwanda’s Paul Kagame by the human rights industrial complex and continue our discussion with BAR’s poet in residence about his upcoming…