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Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.

Berlin Conference’s impact on EAC development 140 years after divide of Africa

Monday, March 31, 2025
Rwanda Defence Force officers with national flags during a military parade. PHOTO BY SAM NGENDA

Country angrier than most

Saturday, March 29, 2025
President Felix Tshisekedi welcomed Belgian troops to Kindu, DR Congo, on March 17, 2025 – 300 to 400 commandos with tanks and drones.

Addicted to the Abuser: Tshisekedi’s Belgian fix dooms DR Congo

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Embassy of Belgium in Kigali. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect. File

African renaissance: Is globalisation igniting its revival?

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Thousands of Goma citizens during a general meeting with AFC M23 rebel leaders in February. Courtesy

Kivus: A new era of peace that no sanctions can undermine

Tuesday, March 25, 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. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA

Why the war Rwanda is fighting is every pan-Africanist war

Monday, March 24, 2025
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