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Rwanda: Why Kagame and Rwanda Are Under Attack Over DRC

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Ordinarily op-eds from Rwanda's state run newspaper should be taken with a grain of salt. However, this op-ed is the best analysis I have ever seen about the west's relationship with Africa. "If Rwanda had been a failed state, as some hoped it would be after 1994, it would enjoy the goodwill of many and there would be a rush to help, even if that ended up entrenching the failed country status.
NGOs would be trampling all over the place, setting up this or that project and using the hapless people to raise money in rich countries to finance their lavish lifestyle and hopefully gratify their moral delusions masquerading as activism."
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Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online Quill Magazine, the Huffington (more...)
 

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