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Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda

13/07/2012 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda

Zeinab Badawi talks to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

Zeinab Badawi talks to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda: can he reclaim his reputation as a bold and visionary leader or is he about to lose the international community's goodwill?

Is Rwanda's president Paul Kagame in serious danger of losing the international community's goodwill?

He has been accused of autocratic behaviour and of being unrealistic about the prospects for an economic transformation of Rwanda, a country still haunted by the ghosts of genocide.

Perhaps most damagingly, a recent UN report claimed that the Rwandan government is breaking UN sanctions by backing rebels in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Zeinab Badawi talks to President Paul Kagame: can he reclaim his reputation as a bold and visionary leader or is he destined to go down as another African strongman who failed to live up to expectations?

(Image: Rwandan President Paul Kagame in 2010. Credit: AP Photo / Adam Scotti)

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