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21st Century

African Regime Gone Bad: The Bad Lads Club Impunity

5th July 2023 Going Postal 0

Whatever crimes the RPF had or hadn’t committed inside Rwanda, its interventions in DRC and meddling in neighbouring states (Uganda and Burundi) had exposed a casualness to human life, cavalier ruthlessness, and shocking levels of [more…]

20th Century

African Regime Gone Bad: The Result

28th June 2023 Going Postal 0

Rwanda’s “story” had the international community so thoroughly by the emotional and intellectual throat, it could not now, wrest free. Some elements of the stranglehold were self-serving. Rwanda’s most prize 21st-century export was not coffee [more…]

20th Century

African Regime Gone Bad, Part Eleven

21st June 2023 Going Postal 0

Having humiliated the Ugandan Army (UPDF), the RPF and the RCD in December crushed the remnants of the Congolese army and its Zimbabwean allies in Pweto, southeastern Congo. On 16th January 2001, Kabila was sitting [more…]

20th Century

Africa Regime Gone Bad, Pilato Climbs the Ladder

14th June 2023 Going Postal 0

In March 1997, in his usual dubious and manipulative way, Kagame “assumed” the chairmanship of the RPF (the ruling party) from Colonel Alexis Kanyarengwe. After protesting army massacres of Hutus in his home province of [more…]

20th Century

African Regime Gone Bad, Zaire Invasion

7th June 2023 Going Postal 0

If “keep us safe” was the RPF’s public driving mantra, it was easier said than done. Having taken a generation for Uganda refugee camps to produce a rebel force capable of threatening Rwanda’s national security, [more…]

20th Century

Celebrating The World’s Longest Serving Monarch

13th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The recent Jubilee bank holiday weekend provided an opportunity to pause for thought and consider the service rendered by the world’s oldest and longest-serving monarch and head of state. No, not her. She gets enough [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Twenty Two

18th June 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie and Penny entered King Charles the Martyr Church in Mutton Lane, Potters Bar. Jinnie shivered, despite it being a pleasant sunny early June day, the brick-built church felt chilly. But then maybe it was [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Twenty One

11th June 2021 Going Postal 0

Joey’s Challenger 2 trundled down Potters Bar High Street followed by the other two tanks of his troop and the mixed bag of APCs and IFVs. Quite a lot of people were lining the pavements [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Twenty

4th June 2021 Going Postal 0

Colour Sergeant Jones and his troop now had full fuel tanks on their Challenger 2s, thanks to the friendly farmer. Looking at his GPS navigation computer it told him that he had enough, not just [more…]

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