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Ambassador James Musoni and Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Professor Amon Murirwa lit candles during the commemoration event in Zambia on Monday
Kwibuka

Kwibuka 31: Zimbabwe stands in solidarity with Rwanda, says foreign minister

Monday, April 07, 2025
President Kagame addressing Rwandans as the country and the rest of the world commenced the commemoration period of the 1994 Genocide against the Tusti, on April 7. Dan Gatsinzi
Kwibuka

Kagame urges Rwandans to fight for their dignified lives

Monday, April 07, 2025
Jean-Damascène Bizimana, the Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement delivers his remarks at the commemoration event at Kigali Genocide Memorial on Monday, April 7. Photo by Dan Gatsinzi
Kwibuka

Role of Belgium in decades-long violence against Tutsi exposed as Rwanda marks Genocide

Monday, April 07, 2025
April 7, 1994, marks the day Rwanda spiraled into the horrors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, a brutal campaign that claimed over one million lives in just 100 days.
Kwibuka

Genocide Timeline April 7, 1994: The day Rwanda plunged into Genocide

Monday, April 07, 2025
Former UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan Christopher Trott during the tour of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum in Gisozi . Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Kwibuka31: The lasting echoes of Genocide and unanswered questions for Tutsi in Great Lakes

Monday, April 07, 2025
A mother helps her autistic child write on a flip chart at the Kigali Autism Centre in Kagugu, Gasabo District on December 23, 2022. Photo Craish Bahizi
Health

Early detection of autism helps children prosper – experts

Thursday, April 03, 2025
Gems cohort from Terimbere Muhinzi w’Imboga n’Imbuto Cooperative celebrating the International Women’s Day in Gakenke. Photo credit by ESP, March 2025
Featured

Empowering Young Women Entrepreneurs: A celebration of progress and community impact in Gakenke

Thursday, April 03, 2025
Delegates pose for a group photo at the Equity Women Forum 2025, on Friday, March 28, at Kigali Serena Hotel.
Featured

FEATURED: Equity Women Forum 2025 roots for more financial inclusion

Saturday, March 29, 2025
Former Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe, a long-time observer of the region during the interview with The New Times in Kigali on March 18. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana.
Africa

Belgian politicians are leveraging DR Congo crisis to boost influence in UN, EU - former Belgian senator

Friday, March 21, 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.
International

A historical timeline of Belgium's divisive politics in Rwanda

Monday, March 17, 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
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.
International

Hundreds of experts, academics, lawyers, religious leaders, writers, artists write to UN chief over persecution of Congolese Tutsi

Sunday, March 09, 2025