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The October 2024 MONUSCO report showed that of 663 civilian deaths between June and September, M23 was responsible for 71—compared to 467 by ADF and 346 summary executions by Congolese security forces.

Weaponising UN reports: How flawed DR Congo narratives fuel anti-Rwanda bias in the west

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
President Paul Kagame meets Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe at Village Urugwiro on Monday, April 21. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Rwanda

Kagame, Togo President discuss regional peace

Monday, April 21, 2025
Christopher Trott, the former UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

How Belgian colonialism caused deadly conflict in the Great Lakes Region

Monday, April 21, 2025
Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, the DR Congo Foreign Minister, addresses UN Security Council.

The drama of the absurd at the United Nations

Sunday, April 20, 2025
Olive Lembe, the wife of former Congolese President Joseph Kabila.
Africa

DR Congo crisis: Kabila’s wife says persecuted by Congolese security agencies

Thursday, April 17, 2025
Robert Kayinamura, Deputy Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the UN speaks at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, April 16. Courtesy
Africa

Legitimizing FDLR destabilizes region – Rwandan envoy

Thursday, April 17, 2025
Robert Kayinamura, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the UN, addresses the UN Security Council on Wednesday, April 16. Courtesy
Africa

UNSC briefing on the implementation of the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework (PSCF) for  DR Congo and the Great Lakes region

Thursday, April 17, 2025
The Rwandan community in the Belgian city of Liege held a commemorative event for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi on April 13. Courtesy.

Selective memory in Liège: When political cowardice undermines human dignity

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Maxime Prévot, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium

Genocide ideology: Belgium is a gene pool custodian

Sunday, April 13, 2025
Travellers in 2024 mostly spent on accommodation, food and beverages, transportation, shopping, and entertainment. Sam Ngendahimana
Tourism

What drove visitor spending in 2024?

Friday, April 11, 2025
Brig Gen Ezechiel Gakwerere of the genocidal militia FDLR and some members captured by M23 at the handover event in Rubavu District on Saturday, March 1. Photo Germain Nsanzimana
Security

Kwibuka31: Why FDLR presence in DR Congo poses a regional threat

Friday, April 11, 2025
Vincent Karega, the Ambassador at Large in the Great Lakes Region, said the divisionism introduced by colonial powers, particularly Belgium, laid the foundation for ethnic hatred in Rwanda.
Kwibuka

Amb Karega: Belgium’s colonial divide is root cause of genocide ideology in region

Thursday, April 10, 2025