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Amani Athar
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Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Internet
Africa needs authentic leadership, not western puppets
Friday, April 25, 2025
With a clenched fist and a scarf in RPF colours, this senior citizen looked the part as he whispered something in President Kagame's ear during the latter's campaign rally in Kirehe on July 2. File
How ancestral legacy shaped Paul Kagame’s leadership
Friday, April 18, 2025
The New Times
Dr. Richard Kandt’s role in sowing division in Rwanda
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Jean-Michel Marlaud, France’s ambassador to Rwanda in 1994 and Colonel Theoneste Bagosora
Genocide: Was Marlaud France’s envoy or Bagosora’s puppet?
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Former U.S envoy to Rwanda David Rawson
Genocide: The controversial legacy of U.S envoy David Rawson
Thursday, April 03, 2025
The New Times
Could East Africa be the original Eden?
Monday, March 31, 2025
Embassy of Belgium in Kigali. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect. File
African renaissance: Is globalisation igniting its revival?
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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Lessons for Belgium: How Rwanda and France rebuilt ties after 2006
Friday, March 21, 2025
Rwandan oral history recounts that during and after the reign of Kizira, the father of Muntu, the population of Mazinga (now part of Akagera National Park) suffered catastrophic floods and disease outbreaks. 
Shared Ancestral: Is Rwandan Muntu the same as Ugandan Kintu?
Monday, March 17, 2025
Rwanda Defence Force armed guard during a parade at the presidential inauguration atAmahoro stadium on August 11, 2024.
Rejecting the west’s influence: Rwanda’s stand for sovereignty
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
President Kagame greets thousands of residents during his outreach in Kibingo ground Ruhango District, on August 25, 2022. File
Why President Paul Kagame will win a war that isn't his
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Congolese refugees at Kigeme refugee camp during a peaceful march calling for action on the ongoing killings against Tutsi communities in eastern DR Congo on December 12, 2022. Photo by Willy Mucyo
The 67-year long fight to deny citizenship to the DR Congo Tutsi must end
Friday, February 28, 2025
AFCM23 fighters at the DR Congo side of the border after their brief show up at Rusizi 1 Border Post, on Sunday, February 16. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Can Rwanda’s war against colonial ideology spark Africa’s renaissance?
Friday, February 21, 2025
On February 11, 1959, Bishop André Perraudin, then Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi, published a pastoral letter known as the “Lent letter” that was circulated in churches all over Rwanda to brainwash Rwandans.
February 11, 1959, a day the unity of Rwandans was wounded
Saturday, February 15, 2025
M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo.
Why there were no Tutsi rebel groups in DR Congo before 1995
Friday, February 07, 2025
Congolese refugees from Kigeme refugee camp, march during a peaceful demonstration to call for action against the ongoing atrocities against Tutsi in eastern DR Congo on March 8, 2024. Olivier Mugwiza
Falsification of history as a weapon to deny citizenship to the Congolese Tutsi
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Students with portraits of heroes of Nyange who were killed by Abacengezi on March 18,1997 at Groupe Scolaire Nyange. Courtesy
January 19: A reflection on RPF’s role in instilling the sense of national unity
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Congolese refugees from Kigeme refugee during a peaceful march to call for action against Genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo, on March 8, 2024. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Revisiting the roots of anti-Tutsi ideology
Thursday, January 16, 2025

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