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The meeting between President Paul Kagame and more than 10,000 young Rwandans at BK Arena during the Meet the President dialogue on Wednesday, October 21, was more than a presidential…
The death of Sergeant Major Kabera Robert in Uganda has once again exposed a troubling pattern in how some Western media outlets and anti-Rwanda elements frame events involving individuals who…
When I was young, the name Human Rights Watch (HRW) inspired admiration. I imagined a fearless guardian of justice, a voice for the voiceless, and a shield for the vulnerable.…
Rwanda’s agreement to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix in the early 2030s marks a major milestone for the country and the African continent. The ten-year deal will bring the…
Genocide denial and distortion continue to take different forms, with perpetrators and their sympathizers promoting misleading narratives to manipulate historical facts, minimize responsibility, and undermine the truth about the 1994…
As artificial intelligence changes how knowledge is created and assignments are completed, a collaboration between Polish academic Wojciech Baluch and Rwanda-based Nexus Inc. is exploring a new way to approach…
I remember when people used to talk about Rwanda only in the past tense. I remember when our aspirations were expected to be quiet, modest, and small. But there…
Observed every October, Rwanda’s month of unity and resilience is more than an annual commemoration. It is an important national opportunity to look at how far the country has come…
The Washington Accords were intended to address one of the most persistent security challenges in the Great Lakes region being the neutralization of the genocidal FDLR in eastern DRC. Yet…
In the study of historic atrocities, scholars recognize genocide not as a singular event, but as a multi-stage process. The final phase is always denial which involves the systematic…
For more than two decades, the United Nations has maintained a major peacekeeping presence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), first through MONUC and, since 2010, through MONUSCO.…
Rwanda today and the capacity to anticipate As Rwanda just marked the beginning of the successful struggle to liberate the nation from the grip of genocidal forces, we always wonder…
Every year on October 1st, Rwanda marks Patriotism Day a date carved into the bedrock of our national consciousness. On this morning in 1990, a generation of young men and…
A disturbing statement by the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Zénon Mukongo Ngay, has once again exposed Kinshasa’s dangerous narrative about Rwanda’s history…
While Patrick Muyaya’s propaganda machine promises victory, on the ground and in New York, Kinshasa is losing. Addressing the UN Security Council in New York, Rwanda’s representative, Ambassador Martin Ngoga…
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye sat down with France 24 and portrayed himself as a victim of Rwandan aggression, a man simply asking…
In recent interventions before the UN General Assembly, Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye and DRC Prime Minister Judith Suminwa have sought to dismiss Rwanda’s security concerns over the persistent and existential…
President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s role in escalating the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is a major concern not only for the Congolese people but for the entire region. He…
For more than two decades, Vincent Bajinya lived quietly in the United Kingdom under the alias Vincent Brown. Granted British citizenship in 2004 after what appears to have been minimal…
NEW YORK — The world’s most powerful leaders gather in New York for the high-level General Debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, under a theme that sounds less…
For a long time, space technology was seen as a luxury reserved for global superpowers. And it seemed to make sense. Space infrastructure can be expensive. In a developing country,…
A recent article by The New Humanitarian paints a grim picture of the AFC/M23’s parallel administration in eastern DRC, focusing on taxation, mineral extraction, and the economic strain on local…
The latest exchange between Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe and his Burundian counterpart, Édouard Bizimana, may appear to be another episode in the increasingly tense relationship between Kigali and Gitega.…
Sitting in a comfortable red chair at the Kigali Convention Centre, I found myself reflecting on the fact that this was almost my fourth visit to the same venue in…