Commentary

The popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt’s cities continued last week.Only this time there were a few twists in the tale. The first was the appearance of Mubarak’s camel-borne “supporters” wrecking painful devastation on the crowds asking for his departure.

When President Paul Kagame visited Brussels, last December, I was among the 3,000 people who welcomed him at the Car Museum at the Cinquantenaire. Addressing the gathering, that comprised Rwandans in the Diaspora and Friends of Rwanda, he spoke about the progress that the country has registered, over the last sixteen years, and the future plans, as stipulated in its vision 2020.