Victoire Ingabire: the woman who challenged Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News, broadcast Dec. 14, 2013 http://www.anngarrison.com/sites/default/files/mp3/VICTOIRE-SENTENCE-EXTENDED.mp3 Victoire Ingabire, with the shaved head and pink uniform of...
View ArticleMarching for Madame Victoire 20 years after the Rwandan Genocide
by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News broadcast Feb. 22, 2014 http://www.anngarrison.com/sites/default/files/mp3/ANN-ON-VICTOIRE-BRUSSELLS-MARCH-FEB-2014.mp3 Transcript KPFA Evening News Anchor Sharon...
View ArticleRwanda’s ambassador to bring legally enforced history to Sonoma State University
by Ann Garrison and Cameron Jones KPFA Evening News, broadcast March 22, 2014...
View ArticleWho killed the Hutu? Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Pacifica and AfrobeatRadio producer Ann Garrison and St. John’s University Law School Professor Charles Kambanda asked us to republish the audio archive and transcript as the 20th Anniversary...
View ArticleRwanda: Absolute power at any price
Introduction Gen. Paul Kagame ordered the shooting down of the plane in which President Habyarimana and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, French citizens, and all others on board were killed on...
View ArticleAfrica’s betrayal by African leaders
by Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Africa’s elite and the elite internationally have concluded the African Development Bank’s 50th anniversary celebrations and annual meeting under the theme: “The Next 50...
View ArticleSecond genocide in Rwanda? Slow, silent, systematic?
by Ann Garrison What is happening in Rwanda? On Aug. 26, the BBC reported that Burundian officials are investigating to determine why Rwandan bodies have been found floating in Lake Rweru, on Burundi’s...
View ArticleBBC asks ‘What really happened in Rwanda?’ (with French translation)
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News for Oct. 11, 2014 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BBC-on-Rwanda.mp3 French translation follows A new BBC documentary challenges the world’s most basic...
View ArticleRwandans protest Dutch support for Kagame dictatorship
French translation by Marceline Nduwamungu follows by Ann Garrison Rwandan Dutch citizens and political asylum seekers in the Netherlands demonstrated in The Hague, the country’s capital, on Saturday,...
View ArticleRwanda continues inquiry into BBC ‘genocide denial,’ refuses Reyntjens’...
by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News broadcast Dec. 6, 2014 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/KPFA-FILIP-REYNTJENS-BBC-RWANDA.mp3 After Belgian scholar Filip Reyntjens read what had been...
View ArticleUK Foreign Office calls on Rwanda to restore BBC Gahuza
by Ann Garrison KPFA News broadcast March 15, 2015 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BBC-Gahuza-Rwanda-KPFA.mp3 The U.K. Foreign Office called on the Rwandan government to lift the ban on...
View ArticleRwanda and Burundi: Who’s ‘promoting instability through violence’?
by Ann Garrison President Pierre Nkurunziza arrives riding a bicycle, accompanied by first lady Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza, right, to cast his vote for the presidential election, in Ngozi, Burundi, July...
View ArticleRwanda: Supporters of scholar Léopold Munyakazi struggle to stop his...
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News, broadcast Sept. 12, 2015 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DEPORTATION-STRUGGLE-MUNYAKAZI.mp3 French professor Léopold Munyakazi is in custody in Miami,...
View ArticleBurundi: Insurgents claim attack on presidential palace
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News broadcast Nov. 22, 2015 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/KPFA-DRUMTRA-ON-BURUNDI-HIGHEST-RISKS.mp3 In Rwanda and Burundi, the massacres of the last 20...
View ArticleRwanda conscripts Burundian refugees into new ‘rebel force’: an interview...
by Ann Garrison Burundian refugees at Nyanza reception center prepare to depart for Rwanda’s Mahama refugee camp. – Photo: J. Novela, UNHCR Western press and officials now warn that the Rwandan...
View ArticleBurundi: Will the African Union force its troops on an African nation?
by Ann Garrison On Wednesday, Dec. 16, the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) declared its intent to send 5,000 African “peacekeeping” troops to Burundi to protect civilians, whether the...
View ArticleBurundi: Nkurunziza uplifts Burundi’s 93 percent rural poor
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News broadcast Dec. 25, 2015 Supporters of President Pierre Nkurunziza say that the key social divide in Burundi is not Hutu and Tutsi, but urban and rural....
View ArticleRwanda, the enduring lies: a Project Censored interview with Professor Ed Herman
by Ann Garrison This is the transcript of an interview broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network’s Project Censored Show on KPFA Jan. 1, 2016, and on other Pacifica stations during the following week,...
View ArticleThe crime that turned Central Africa into a vast killing ground
by Ann Garrison April 6 was the 24th anniversary of the day that Gen. Paul Kagame shattered a ceasefire agreement and resumed the 1990-1994 war in Rwanda by assassinating Rwandan President Juvenal...
View ArticleVictoire Ingabire walks a knife edge in Rwanda
Paul Kagame and Victoire Ingabire by Ann Garrison A “Google Alert” triggers emails alerting me to new headlines about Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire. Of late I’ve opened them with dread,...
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