Kagame’s Days As Donor Darling In US Over
The nominee for the position of Assistant Secretary of State in President Donald Trump’s administration is Ambassador Tibor Nagy. His statements during the Senate confirmation hearing indicate that Nagy is solidly anti dictatorship. Here are two takeaways from his statements in the Senate confirmation hearing:
1. ”Some African leaders are perpetuating their rule through constitutional manipulation and increased repression.”
2. ”They [youth] are the future of Africa, not the dinosaurs who want to stay Presidents for Life immaterial of the harm they cause their own people.”
President Paul Kagame has been a US donor darling from the Bill Clinton administration through George W Bush to Barack Obama’s administration. Kagame could do no wrong. The game is changing. Now, the likely point man for Africa in the Donald Trump’s administration is talking an entirely different language — ”dinosaurs who manipulate constitutions to stay presidents for life.” The red carpet in Trump’s State Department is withdrawn from Kagame and other dinosaurs. No wonder Kagame is hunting for a new patron in Russia.
Kagame is Rwanda’s dinosaur determined to stay in power for life no matter what
To give a sense of how long Kagame has already been in power, he took over as a military General in 1994 initially using a figurehead presidency of Pasteur Bizimungu. President Bill Clinton was in office in the U.S.
Kagame removed Bizimungu in 2000. A year later, Clinton’s second ended, and was succeeded by George W Bush.
George Bush second term was completed in 2009, and in came Barack Obama. Kagame begun his second 7-year term a year later in 2010.
Then came the 4th American president since Kagame’s ascendancy to power — Donald Trump who began his term in January 2017.
Assuming that Trump serves two terms, he will leave office in 2025. Kagame will still have 9 years — if he won’t change the constitution and grab more years beyond 2034.
