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Peter Ruti

Peter Ruti

RPA soldiers in 1990s. Rwandese Alliance for National Unity (RANU) was created after the failure of UNAR to usher in a new era. Time and evolution of events led RANU to morph into the RPF-Inkotanyi.

How RANU morphed into RPF as a liberation movement

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Rwanda Patriotic Army soldiers pose for a group photo during the Liberation War in 1990s. File

How refugees' exclusion at home and failure to integrate into host countries birthed RPF armed struggle

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana. Courtesy

How Habyarimana worked tooth and nail to disown Rwandan refugees

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Former Rwandan presidents Gergoire Kayibanda and Juvenal Habyarimana

How Kayibanda, Habyarimana failed to handle Tutsi refugee crisis

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana. Courtesy

How Habyarimana’s ethnic and regional quotas undermined his rule

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

President Juvenal Habyarimana’s MRND’s party and its leader. Courtesy

How Habyarimana’s regime worsened divisionism

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Former President Juvenal Habyarimana

How President Habyarimana consolidated all power

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Former Presidents Gregoire Kayibanda and Juvenal Habyarimana..

Habyarimana’s coup against Kayibanda offered hope for Tutsi, only it was short-lived

Thursday, April 24, 2025

At the end of the First Republic, PARMEHUTU relied on a small group of people from Gitarama who were among President Kayibanda’s faithful friends.

How Kayibanda’s regime of divisionism destroyed itself

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

President Gregoire Kayibanda.

Years of infighting in PARMEHUTU led to 1973 coup d’état

Friday, April 11, 2025

In the colonial period, the education system was dominated by the Catholic Church. The same thing during the First Republic. The church wielded significant influence on institutions and leaders of the country.

How the Catholic Church influenced sociopolitical matters under Kayibanda regime

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

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The demise of Inyenzi enabled Gregoire Kayibanda to embark on diplomatic missions

Friday, March 28, 2025

The effects and repercussions of the Inyenzi struggle in 1960s. Courtesy

Lack of unified leadership and clear political line led to defeat of Inyenzi

Monday, March 24, 2025

Grégoire Kayibanda (centre), first elected President of Rwanda, with African and Belgian government representatives, Brussels, December 1961. PHOTO BY AFP

How PARMEHUTU sold out Rwandans by relying on Belgian colonialists

Thursday, March 13, 2025

MDR-PARMEHUTU became a de-facto single party from 1963 after eliminating opposition political parties.

A look back at PARMEHUTU’s oppressive policies and the birth of Inyenzi

Sunday, March 09, 2025

During President Gregoire Kayibanda’s rule, he solely wielded the judicial powers. The constitution stipulated the president and cabinet ministers would exercise the executive powers.

How Kayibanda’s PARMEHUTU eliminated opposition parties

Friday, February 28, 2025

The Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and the Belgian trusteeship authority.

How Hutu and Tutsi masses hang between elites and Belgian colonialists

Tuesday, February 25, 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