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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

Paul Kagame

Paul Rusesabagina appears in front of media at the headquarters of the Rwanda Bureau of investigations building in Kigali, Rwanda, August 31, 2020. (AP Photo)
August 31, 2020, 8:27 pm
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terror charges, say police
Rwandan police accuse Paul Rusesabagina, a prominent critic of President Kagame, of being a ‘founder, leader, sponsor and member of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits’
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, left, and the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry Yuval Rotem open Israel's new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 1, 2019 (courtesy MFA)
April 1, 2019, 3:48 pm
Boosting diplomatic drive to Africa, Israel opens embassy in Rwanda
New mission in Kigali is Israel’s 11th embassy on the continent; ‘Rwanda has proven to be a steady, true friend,’ Foreign Ministry says
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's new Ambassador to Rwanda, Ron Adam, left, presents his credentials to Rwanda President Paul Kagame, on February 21, 2019. (Office of the President of Rwanda)
February 22, 2019, 6:48 pm
Boosting Africa ties, Israel opens first embassy in Rwanda
Netanyahu has made expanding Jerusalem’s relations in Africa a key component of his foreign policy
By AFP and ToI Staff
A RwandAir plane, September 21, 2016. (Wikipedia/Pedro Aragão CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 7, 2019, 5:18 pm
Israel, Rwanda to open direct flight between countries ‘within months’
Aviation agreement caps several weeks of talks between Transportation Ministry and Kigali amid Israeli bid to boost diplomatic ties with Africa
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L) in New York, September 27, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 29, 2018, 8:00 pm
Netanyahu says Israel, Rwanda to open mutual embassies
PM states Kigali officials also interested in starting direct flights to Tel Aviv
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) in New York, September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 28, 2018, 8:22 pm
PM asks UN secretary-general to request IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear sites
Netanyahu wants inspections of warehouse whose existence he revealed in UNGA speech; also meets Rwandan president to discuss Iranian aggression
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump (right) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on March 5, 2018, in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
September 26, 2018, 12:29 pm
Netanyahu to meet Trump ahead of UN Security Council meeting on Iran
Tehran’s nuclear activities and entrenchment in Syria to dominate agenda of Israeli, US leaders on third day of General Assembly
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 72nd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, September 19, 2017. (AFP/Jewel SAMAD)
September 25, 2018, 7:57 am
Netanyahu heads to New York for UN speech, Trump meeting
PM also expected to confer with leaders of Europe and Egypt, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, UN chief Guterres and American Jewish leaders
By Raphael Ahren
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 4:12 pm
Thousands of African migrants protest deportations at Rwandan embassy
‘Would you deport me if I were white?’ ask white-painted demonstrators as Israel’s expulsion effort gets underway
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: South Sudanese refugees line up to fill their plastic containers with water from a tap at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda,, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
February 4, 2018, 2:38 pm
Rwanda, Uganda trade barbs over treatment of refugees
Neighboring East African countries have had years of uneasy relations over claims of forced repatriation and torture
By AP and ToI Staff
Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 6:17 pm
Gabbay, Lapid blast government over Polish, Rwandan genocide initiatives
‘We don’t negotiate over the memory of the deceased,’ Yesh Atid chairman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, says, as Labor party head lambastes the PM for ‘imitating’ far right
By Raoul Wootliff
From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 28, 2018, 10:39 pm
Breaking with West, Israel backs Rwanda in renaming genocide
Hours before row with Poland, Jerusalem accused of supporting rewriting of history elsewhere, in reported quid pro quo with Kigali over migrants
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Rwandan President President Paul Kagame during a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 26, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. ( AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)
January 26, 2018, 4:55 pm
Trump praises African leader in wake of ‘shithole’ comments
US president meets Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Davos, hails ‘tremendous discussions’
By Catherine Lucey
US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, January 24, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)
January 25, 2018, 9:00 am
Trump takes ‘America First’ message to World Economic Forum
US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin indicates president will try to reassure globalists in Davos about his policies; American leader also to meet with Netanyahu during trip
By Andrew BEATTY
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)
January 25, 2018, 12:35 am
Netanyahu agrees to Rwandan demand to only deport migrants there lawfully
Meeting Kagame, PM appears to concede he won’t sent forcibly deported migrants to Rwanda, day after Kigali denies signing secret deal to accept them
By Jacob Magid
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