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Rwanda embassy in Brussels. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect.

Good riddance: The Belgium-Rwanda discord in perspective

Sunday, March 23, 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
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
If the aid was aimed at having the recipient graduate to another level, Belgium and other European countries of their ilk should not be strongly mobilising to cut aid to Rwanda. SAM NGENDAHIMANA

If we survived then, we will always survive

Thursday, February 27, 2025
The Scramble for Africa, formalised at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, was nothing short of grand larceny—a calculated theft of land, resources, and sovereignty by European powers.

Stolen wealth, fractured nations: The enduring legacy of colonial plunder

Thursday, February 27, 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

UN and Europe’s actions in DR Congo will prolong the war, not end it

Wednesday, February 26, 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
La Place de l 'Independence in Bukavu. A city that was liberated by M23 rebels last week. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza

DR Congo crisis: The evil of greed and navigating misinformation

Thursday, February 20, 2025
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DR Congo crisis: The evil of greed and navigating misinformation

Monday, February 17, 2025
AFCM23 fighters walk back to the DR Congo side of the border soom after their brief show up at Rusizi 1 Border Post, on Sunday, February 16.

AFC-M23: An african struggle distorted by neo-colonial interests

Monday, February 17, 2025
Valentine’s Day traces its roots to Lupercalia, an ancient Roman fertility festival later Christianized in honor of St. Valentine

Valentine: The coloniality of love, desire, and romance

Friday, February 14, 2025
The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu elite and Belgian colonialists. File

How ‘Hutu masses’ were pawns in sociopolitical changes of late-colonial Rwanda

Thursday, February 13, 2025