Full Publications by Executive Director André M.N. Renzaho

Dr Andre Renzaho holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Public health from Deakin University and a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne. He is a published author and his main interests range from public health and nutrition in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, Human Rights-based approaches to health planning, health program evaluation to obesity prevention.. To view the full list of Dr Renzaho’s publication, please

Good Practice in Microfinance: The challenges of a poverty focus in an evolving industry

Dr Renzaho and colleagues explains that microfinance generally refers to the provision of financial services to lower-income people, especially the poor and very poor, by formal or informal institutions. Although the term microfinance has primarily been identified with the provision of credit to poor entrepreneurs in the form of micro enterprise development, it covers a range of products including savings, insurance and training and is used not only for micro enterprises, but also for investment in health and education, to manage household emergencies and other cash needs.      

HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity: Breaking the Vicious Cycle

Dr Renzaho and colleagues argues that HIV/AIDS and food security are locked in a vicious cycle in which food insecurity heightens susceptibility to HIV/AIDS, which in turn increases vulnerability to food insecurity. The loss of labor and life associated with HIV/AIDS has severe impacts on agriculture, rural livelihoods, and household nutrition status; it is undermining every aspect of food security- availability, stability, access to and utilization of food- particularly in those areas with high prevalence rates.

How can we stand by as genocide again threatens the Congo?

In this opinion piece, ALLAG’s Executive Director Andre Renzaho argues that it is ethically, politically and morally wrong for the international community to keep silent while Rwandan-backed militias continue to slaughter millions of innocent civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo.      

Africans are ‘close’ neighbours too

Dr Andre Renzaho, ALLAG’s Founder and Executive Director explains that the distance between Perth and Baghdad is 10,293 kms. The distance between Perth and the Congolese capital Kinshasa is 10,752 kms. The distance between Sydney and London is 17,100 kms. So it would not make sense for Australia to be prioritising Iraq or Europe over Congo, based on regional closeness.    

Slamming the door on Africa

n this opinion piece, which first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 9 September 2007, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho remarks that the Howard Government’s decision to cut back on African refugees is appalling. It is unspeakable that the Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, has used anecdotal reports of problems with Sudanese refugees as justification for refusing African refugees.  It is not fair for Mr Andrews to put all African migrants in one basket.

Sudanese settlers feel ‘thin sense of belonging’

In this opinion piece, the Age Newspaper acknowledged Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho’s efforts to make Seven, Nine and Ten television networks accountable for racial vilification of African migrants in Australia. Dr Andre Renzaho wrote to the three networks complaining about their portrayal of “Sudanese gangs” in which footage depicting violence in a shop contained no Sudanese person. Reporting of their community, labelling the journalists’ work appalling, unprofessional and racist.  

Diet disaster in lucky country

In this opinion piece, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho showcases some of his ground-breaking research findings. He is the first researcher to document dietary acculturation among African migrants in Australia and found that migrants from poor African countries can face new health problems.    

Concerns Congo crisis could escalate

In this radio interview for the ABC radio’s ‘The World Today’ broadcast on 11 November 2008, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho notes that Rwanda has more motives to keep its troops and allies in D.R. Congo than just pursuing those who committed genocide in 1994, mainly the natural resources. Rwandan has been exporting coltan in the Kivu and today Rwanda has its financial structures dependent heavily on the natural resources that Congo possesses. While Rwanda is using the motives of pursuing those who committed genocide in 1994, its primary motives in actually fact is to exploit Congo’s natural resources. 

Andre’s Passion Speaks Many Languages

In this powerful opinion piece Dr Andre M.N Renzaho’s hard won knowledge to help other Africans is recognised, especially his  use of evidence-based research to make a difference for those refugees who have been fortunate enough to escape the world’s war zones for Australia.   

Call for Aust to provide accommodation for Goma residents

In this radio interview, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho calls on the international community including Australia to provide temporary accommodation to some of the people affected by the volcanic eruption in Eastern D.R Congo.   

The Howard Government’s decision to cut back on African refugees by using anecdotal reports SBS French program

In this radio interview with SBS, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho condemns the Howard Government’s decision to cut back on African refugees by using anecdotal reports.    

Genocide in Congo, SBS Program

In this radio interview with SBS, Dr Andre M.N. Renzaho condemns the fighting between the Congolese Tutsi rebels and the pro-government militia, Mai-Mai. He notes that the war has led to immeasurable consequences, including the killing of innocent civilians.

e 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: Testimony of Abdul Ruzibiza

Mr RUZIBIZA Abdul is a Tutsi who fled Rwanda in the night from the 3 to 4 February 2001 with the rank of second lieutenant.  He denounces Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his government for their participation in the 1994 genocide, killing Tutsi and Hutu alike for the sake of seizing power. 

Rwanda: Kagame vs protestors in Canada

Robin Philpot reports on the visit to Canada by the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, which was dogged by protests. When the Burundian and Congolese communities learned that a Montreal business group had invited President Kagame to Canada, they immediately formed a coalition known as Act Together for Peace. They wrote to the Canadian government to demand that Kagame not be granted a visa because of alleged crimes committed by the RPF, and pressured the universities of Sherbrooke and Western Ontario not to honour him. Though neither backed down, word has it that they regretted being brought into the debate.          

Paul Kagame, the Mastermind of the Genocide of Interior Tutsis and founder of Interahamwe.

The killings in 1994 were so systematic that they must have been pre-planned. Then, one must ask, who was the planner? Who was the mastermind? Since investigations of the Rwandan Government’s part have (so far) failed to find any evidence of pre-planning by Hutus, would it not be logical to investigate the other warring side, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)?           

The US Sponsored “Rwanda Genocide” and its Aftermath: Psychological Warfare, Embedded Reporters and the Hunting of Refugees

An investigation has uncovered an asylum system scandal where bogus Rwandan “refugees” infiltrate the U.S. and U.K. and work as undercover agents to hunt down critics of the Rwandan dictatorship and legitimate refugees and drag them back to Rwanda. This is yet the latest revelation on how the dictatorship in Rwanda manufactures and exports terrorism using an ideology of genocide and how the West supports terrorism by backing its Rwanda proxy. Meanwhile, business in Rwanda is booming and the criminal networks of the Kagame military machine continue to plunder the blood-drenched Congo.    

The Great Rwanda “Genocide Coverup”

“…But, recently issued French and Spanish international “war-crimes” warrants and new evidence at the UN Rwanda Tribunal have exposed Kagame as the war-criminal who actually touched-off the 1994 “Rwanda Genocide” by assassinating the previous President and who is benefiting from a decades-long U.S.-sponsored “cover-up” of Pentagon complicity in massacres committed by Kagame’s regime, which even Britain’s Economist has called “the most repressive in Africa“ .          

Open Letter to His Excellency Paul Kegame, President of the Republic of Rwanda at Kigal

The detainees of the ICTR, signatories of the present document, have judged it necessary to react to your racist and discriminatory intentions announced by several Rwandan personalities on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan “genocide”, celebrated on Nyanza hill, Kigali, 11 April 2009

US Role In Rwandan Genocide

“…And as opposed to be sold the idea that Rwanda is this place with all these people victims that were victims of genocide and survivors and we need to help them and all this nonsense. The current government of Rwanda is the one who perpetrated genocide in Rwanda, in 1990 to 1994 and then they went into Congo or went through the government there and stirred up this hornets nests involving all these other corporations…”    

Paul Kagame, << The Biggest Killer Alive>> to visit Canada

On his way to Canada, Paul Kagame drags with him the blood of millions of people. According to a diplomat who confided in Grands-Lacs Confidentiel, “Beyond any doubt, Kagame is the greatest african killer of all times”. The gesture of the Canadian government to invite such an individual affects greatly the respect the whole world has for Canada in terms of human rights and democratic values.    

Paul Kagame: Tyrant

What is interesting is that the game Kagame is playing against the Hutu and Twa is the very game the Hutu will play against the Tutsi when they also reorganize and come to power. You wait, it wont take too long!