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Rwandan president Paul Kagame has been the 'darling' of Europe and the West for several decades (Photo: elysee.fr)

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EU faces a sanctions dilemma as its central African ally goes rogue

After several decades as a ‘darling’ of the West, the EU is forced to confront the reality that Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, one of the EU’s closest partners in Africa, shares worrying similarities with Vladimir Putin....

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rwandan president Paul Kagame has been the 'darling' of Europe and the West for several decades (Photo: elysee.fr)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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