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2 months ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Townsend |Michela Wrong
Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of roleRwandan-backed M23 rebels in Goma in January. Sources say mass graves were dug for RDF troops killed in fighting in DRC but Rwanda denies any role. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Goma in January. Sources say mass graves were dug for RDF troops killed in fighting in DRC but Rwanda denies any role.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend |Michela Wrong
Hundreds of Rwandan troops have been killed during covert operations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), contradicting claims from Kigali that its soldiers are not involved in the conflict there. Multiple intelligence, military and diplomatic sources say that “very significant” numbers of soldiers from the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) have died supporting an offensive by M23 rebels in DRC.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sam Forster |Mark Galeotti |Romina Frohar |Michela Wrong
Naquora, LebanonTensions along the forty-nine-mile Blue Line that partitions Israel from Lebanon are as high as they’ve been in recent history. Given the stated objectives of Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite militia that controls Lebanon’s South and the IDF, which seeks to repel them beyond striking distance, that’s saying a lot. Ten thousand sky-blue helmets stand between the warring sides, protecting a division of international troops from the raining debris of intercepted rockets.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Mark Galeotti |Romina Frohar |Michela Wrong |Arash Azizi
One thing the French seem to be learning (or, given their history, re-learning) is that the Russians are always up for a scrap. A ministerial phone call between the two countries has led to a diplomatic spat such that a stung Emmanuel Macron is now claiming that Moscow plans to target this summer’s Paris Olympics — and he’s probably right. On Wednesday, French defense minister Sébastien Lecornu had a rare phone conversation — the first since 2022 — with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Romina Frohar |Michela Wrong |Arash Azizi |Nicholas Farrell
For the past few days, I’ve been hoping to receive an email from the two universities in Scotland where I’m enrolled in a joint PhD program. So far, though, I’ve not heard from either of them. It seems obvious that all of this is creating a climate of fear and stifling academic discourseSince the war in Gaza broke out, students have received weekly, and sometimes even daily, updates about the conflict.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Michela Wrong |Arash Azizi |Nicholas Farrell |John Keiger
On Sunday a solemn ceremony takes place in Rwanda’s capital. President Paul Kagame, flanked by international dignitaries will light a flame of remembrance at Kigali’s genocide memorial, where the bones of more than 250,000 people are interred. “Kwibuka” (“Remember” in Kinyarwanda) — this act of commemoration — happens every April. But this time it’s special. It has now been thirty years since the genocide, and is thus an opportunity to assess the tenure of one of Africa’s most controversial leaders.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Michela Wrong
Today a solemn ceremony takes place in Rwanda’s capital. President Paul Kagame, flanked by international dignitaries – including our own development secretary Andrew Mitchell – will light a flame of remembrance at Kigali’s genocide memorial, where the bones of more than 250,000 people are interred. ‘Kwibuka’ (‘Remember’ in Kinyarwanda) – this act of commemoration – happens every April.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Michela Wrong |Harper Collins
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Michela Wrong The truth about the Rwandan genocide Linkedin Messenger Email Today a solemn ceremony takes place in Rwanda’s capital. President Paul Kagame, flanked by international dignitaries – including our own development secretary Andrew Mitchell – will light a flame of remembrance at Kigali’s genocide memorial, where the bones of more than 250,000 people are interred. ‘Kwibuka’ (‘Remember’ in Kinyarwanda) – this act of commemoration – happens...
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Michela Wrong
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Bloomsbury, pp.464, 25 ‘If I’d died in my thirties, what would be left behind?’ is the question that keeps coming to mind reading this timely new biography of Frantz Fanon, the psychiatrist and philosopher who became an icon to leftist revolutionaries across the globe.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Michela Wrong |Harper Collins
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Michela Wrong The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon Linkedin Messenger Email The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz Bloomsbury, pp. 464, £25 ‘If I’d died in my thirties, what would be left behind?’ is the question that keeps coming to mind reading this timely new biography of Frantz Fanon, the psychiatrist and philosopher who became an icon to leftist revolutionaries across the globe. ‘Would I want history to...
