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DR Congo’s self-deception and perilous scapegoating

Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Beyond AfCFTA: Can Africa build regional Supply chains?

Thursday, March 20, 2025
From 1917, Belgium initiated a deep reform of Rwanda’s customary institutions. The changes introduced labor legislation including severe corporal punishments (whipping, beating, the categorization of Rwandans.

A Rwanda without Belgium? Six decades overdue

Thursday, March 20, 2025
Decor items inspired by Rwandan culture (ibyansi). Drawings were inspired by the story of Nyagakecuru. Photo taken during the event at Atelier Academy on 8 February, in Kigali. Courtesy

Stories from another land

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Members of Twisungane cooperative work in their tomato plantation in Muko Sector in Musanze District.

Accelerating action: The financial sector’s role in empowering Rwandan women

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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The end of development aid as we know it: A blessing for Africans

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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Editorial

Europe’s meddling in efforts to pacify DR Congo must be collectively fought

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
FDLR 'General' Ezechiel Gakwerere, seen in FARDC uniform, is repatriated to Rwanda from DR Congo on March 1, after he was captured by M23 rebels.

The delusions of FARDC: How a hallucinating army became a political epidemic

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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Africa’s Berlin conference hangover: When European ambitions undermine African solutions

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
President Kagame addresses thousands of delegates during a Presidential Citizen Outreach event at BK Arena on Sunday, March 16. The event brought together thousands of citizens, primarily from Kigali City.

With a resilient leadership we have, Rwanda will thrive against all odds

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
European mercenaries surrendered to M23 rebels and were allowed to cross into Rwanda before they were facilitated to take flights to their countries on Wednesday, January 29. PHOTO BY EMMANUEL DUSHIMIMANA

DR Congo and its backers underestimate Rwandans’ resolve

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
On March 1, 2025, AFC-M23 handed over Brig Gen Ezechiel Gakwerere of the genocidal militia FDLR. Gen Gakwerere was with other 14 members of FDLR who were fighting alongside FARDC soldiers in eastern DR Congo. Germain Nsanzimana
Editorial

Belgium must stop fueling instability in the region

Monday, March 17, 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
China has achieved “escape velocity”, and broken free of the gravitational pull of those that have worked so hard and for so long to keep it down.

So much to root for about the emergence of China as a superpower

Monday, March 17, 2025
Felix Tshisekedi.

Felix Tshisekedi’s past as a pizza deliveryman foretold the DRC’s current crisis

Sunday, March 16, 2025
In 1994, after the fall of the genocidal regime in Rwanda, perpetrators fled to neighboring Zaire (now DR Congo), carrying their ideology with them. 

Addressing the baseless claims of genocide in DR Congo

Saturday, March 15, 2025
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A health scare, reality check and one lazybones leap into fitness

Friday, March 14, 2025
On March 1, 2025, AFC-M23 handed over Brig Gen Ezechiel Gakwerere of the genocidal militia FDLR. GERMAIN NSANZIMANA

RTLM to international sanctions: When empty tins make the most noise

Friday, March 14, 2025
South African troops deployed in eastern DR Congo to fight alongside FARDC and FDLR genocidal group. COURTESY
Editorial

Termination of SADC military mission in DR Congo is long overdue

Friday, March 14, 2025
Some of the artillery weapons seized by M23 at Goma International Airport last month, as seen in this February 10 picture. PHOTO BY JAMES MUNYANEZA

DR Congo: The unheard and unvalued voices

Thursday, March 13, 2025