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Seventeen years after capturing Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) has reached a turning point. The RPF was built amidst conflicts in Uganda, Rwanda and Congo and the personal ties between its leaders were forged in battle. However the inner circle of the Front, which remains at its core a military organisation, not an ordinary political party, has recently begun to disintegrate, falling victim to its own history. The succession of Paul Kagame is an explosive dilemma, if things hold until the elections of 2017, that is.
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Verhoeven, H. (2012). Nurturing Democracy or into the Danger Zone? The Rwandan Patriotic Front, Elite Fragmentation and Post-liberation Politics. In: Campioni, M., Noack, P. (eds) Rwanda Fast Forward. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265159_17
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