Rwanda: Of Beauty Pageants and Their Unintended Consequences

25 January 2015

As most of East Africa counts its losses in relation to the conflict in South Sudan, news from Arusha that the warring factions agreed to mend their fences was timely and welcome. The signing of a reunification agreement aimed at ceasing hostilities in South Sudan is a promising way to start the year.

I am also hopeful that by the time you read this the chaos that engulfed parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past days, will also have come to an end. You see DRC and South Sudan are not part of EAC, but economically they are bloodline for the region as a market for our goods and services.

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