What’s urgent: Rwanda or current crises?

You hear this all the time: why think about countries that are doing well and progressing positively while there are other countries that are clearly in need for immediate attention? Think about Somalia, its pirates and consistent leadership changes, not to mention islamist extremist meddling. Then there’s Sudan and Darfur. Plus there is, recurrently, Zimbabwe. [...]

Rwanda joins Commonwealth

On Nov 29, 2009, during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad, Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth. It is only the second country that has no colonial links to Great Britain to have joined (the other is Mozambique). Fresh after joining the East African Community in 2007, Rwanda now is part of a [...]