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VIDEO: Nduhungirehe on Rwanda-Belgium diplomatic standoff and way forward for DR Congo talks

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Rwanda’s Minister of Justice, Emmanuel Ugirashebuja and Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prevot. Courtesy
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Your words and actions don’t align – Ugirashebuja tells Belgium’s minister

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Tunisia rescues over 600 undocumented migrants from sinking boats.
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Tunisia rescues over 600 undocumented migrants from sinking boats

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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Senators back govt decision to sever ties with Belgium

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect, ordering all Belgian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours. File
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Experts weigh in on break-down of ties between Rwanda and Belgium

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Rwanda embassy in Brussels. Rwandan diplomats will not respond to any summons from the Belgian government following the severance of diplomatic ties between the two countries on Monday, March 17. 
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Rwandan diplomats will not respond to Brussels summons: Nduhungirehe

Monday, March 17, 2025
Embassy of Belgium in Kigali. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect, ordering all Belgian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours. file
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Rwanda tells Belgium not ready ‘to surrender sovereignty, dignity for crumbs of economic aid’

Monday, March 17, 2025
Belgian colonialists introduced ethnic-based identity cards and political ideolology as part of their divide-and-rule policy, even measuring the size of one's nose and other pysical features to determine which ethnicity to ascribe to them.
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A historical timeline of Belgium's divisive politics in Rwanda

Monday, March 17, 2025
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Rwanda cuts diplomatic ties with Belgium

Monday, March 17, 2025
Arielle Kayabaga, the Liberal MP for London West, has been appointed and sworn in as the new Leader of Government Business in Canada’s House of Commons and Minister of Democratic Institutions.
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Arielle Kayabaga named head of Government Business in Canada's House of Commons

Saturday, March 15, 2025
An artist shows an artwork at a street art market in Windhoek, Namibia, on March 8, 2025. Street markets in Windhoek, Namibia's capital, are fueling a significant boom in the creative industry amid limited commercialization opportunities for local artists. (Photo by Ndalimpinga Iita/Xinhua)
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Namibia: Street markets spark creative industry boom in Windhoek

Thursday, March 13, 2025
A view of Djibuti Port. Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected to rebound, reaching 3.8 percent in 2025 and 4.1 percent in 2026,
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Africa's GDP growth projected to hit 3.8% in 2025: report

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Congolese refugees in Mahama camp in Rwanda's Eastern Province protest against killings of Banyamulenge, Hema and Tutsi people in eastern DR Congo on March 6, 2024.
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Hundreds of experts, academics, lawyers, religious leaders, writers, artists write to UN chief over persecution of Congolese Tutsi

Sunday, March 09, 2025
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PHOTOS: Over 400 new Rwanda-trained Central Africa Republic soldiers graduate

Saturday, March 08, 2025
Anthony Ngororano was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as the UN Resident Coordinator in Madagascar.
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Rwandan economist appointed UN envoy to Madagascar

Tuesday, March 04, 2025
The Government of Rwanda has accused the United Kingdom of breaching trust and taking unjustified punitive measures against Kigali. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
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Rwanda accuses UK of breach of trust, demands £50m for migration deal

Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Rebecca Miano (L, Front), Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife, and other officials visit a section ravaged by fire at the Nairobi National Park in the capital of Kenya, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Joy Nabukewa/Xinhua)
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Kenya battles wildfires in major wildlife parks amid severe drought

Monday, March 03, 2025
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US President Trump announces strategic crypto reserve

Monday, March 03, 2025
Anneliese Dodds announced her resignation as the UK’s Minister for International Development and for Women and Equalities on February 28. Courtesy
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UK international development minister resigns over new aid cuts

Friday, February 28, 2025
(L-R) Candidates include Amadou Hott from Senegal,  Bajabulile Swazi Tshabalala from South Africa,Sidi Ould Tah from Mauritania, Samuel Munzele Maimbo from Zambia and  Abbas Mahamat Tolli from Chad. COURTESY
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Five candidates in race for AfDB Presidency

Sunday, February 23, 2025