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The Rwandan leader may no longer be chairman of the African Union, but President Kagame’s shadow looms larger than ever across the continent. In the race to secure Africa’s energy…
It was a high-stakes, late Sunday afternoon on April 25, 2004, when Arsenal F.C. officially sealed the Premier League title. The stage was White Hart Lane, the backyard of their…
At the corridors of the Africa CEO Forum 2026 in Kigali, where presidents, investors, bankers and industrialists spent two days discussing Africa’s economic future, two absences quietly stood out. There…
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room of African Chief Executives and leaders when one of their own tells them they have no one to…
In his latest press conference, President Félix Tshisekedi said the quiet part out loud. He has no intention of ever leaving power. And to stay there, he appears to have…
There is a pattern in the way President Paul Kagame moves across the global stage and it is not random. In just a few weeks, his stops stretch from France,…
There is something profoundly tragic about watching a nation of over 100 million people reduce its entire governance strategy to a manic, poorly executed imitation of its smaller neighbor. Yet…
Kigali — Rwanda’s evolving diplomatic posture in East Africa is increasingly defined by a clear split: deepening ties with Tanzania on one hand, and worsening relations with Burundi on the…
Who decides Congo’s future? power, sanctions, and sovereignty The decision by the United States to sanction former Congolese President, Joseph Kabila has reignited a familiar but uncomfortable question: when external…
Rwanda has established itself as one of Africa’s top destinations for international events, hosting major conferences, high-level meetings, and global sports competitions. The capital, Kigali, is the second most popular…
Your Excellency Secretary-General António Guterres, Under a scorching sun on a Tuesday afternoon in October 2009, I followed you with a recorder as you walked through the narrow, red-earth paths…
KIGALI — When Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) announced a $30 million commitment to a new fund targeting small and medium-sized businesses, the headline figure was modest. The underlying shift,…
Recently, during the Kwibuka32 commemoration event, I watched a video that perfectly captured the paradox of our regional politics and the disconnect between international diplomacy and the reality of life…
In 1994, the world watched as one million Tutsi were slaughtered in Rwanda. We swore never again. Yet today, in eastern DR Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi’s regime is systematically carrying…
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo once confided to East African leaders that the Congo has not changed since his deployment there as a UN peacekeeper in the 1960s. That sobering…
TANZANIA — Somewhere outside Kigoma, a farmer picks up a feature phone that cost her less than a sack of maize. She doesn’t tap an app. She doesn’t scroll a…
Rwanda has invested heavily in digital transformation, smart governance and national development. But one pillar of modern nation-building remains under-discussed and unattended- the quality of the information environment that citizens…
A generation’s promise to remember , protect the truth, and build a future that never repeats the past. We Will Never Forget, And Here’s Why The other day, Olivier Nduhungirehe…
The Rwandan Government continues to warn that genocide denial is evolving globally, while exposing the international community’s repeated failures since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, including its reluctance in…
In 1994, Rwanda was engulfed in the Genocide against the Tutsi, a catastrophe that claimed more than one million Tutsi lives in just one hundred days. Yet the plan and…
As genocide denial continues to resurface in different forms, mainly coming from genocidaires and their descendants, it is important to separate two issues that are too often deliberately conflated: political…
The continued political agitation by members of the family of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana is not about justice, reconciliation, or historical truth. It is about power—lost power—and a persistent…
The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was not a sudden explosion of violence. It was the outcome of decades of deliberate preparation. Its roots trace back to…
The silence of August….. My journey with the story of Rwanda did not begin with a press card, a digital recorder, or a polished notebook. It began in the heavy,…