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Amani Athar

Amani Athar

Burundian troops deployed in Eastern DRC

Belgium gains while Burundi worsens eastern DR Congo Conflict

Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Stanislas Mbonampeka

Reflecting on Stanislas Mbonampeka, a man of selective integrity

Sunday, November 30, 2025

A Belgian doctor measures a man as part of a colonial-era practice used to determine ethnicity. Internet photo

When Belgium used ethnographic maps to annihilate the Tutsi in the Kivus

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

King Yuhi V Musinga.

Why Rubengera, not Kamuronsi, is King Musinga’s true birthplace

Friday, November 21, 2025

The New Times

Nyaruteja peace pact: A lesson of reconciliation, peace and respect between neighbours

Friday, November 07, 2025

The New Times

November 1, 1959: In Remembrance of the infamous ‘La Toussaint Rwandaise’

Saturday, November 01, 2025

Before the colonial era Rwandans were united. Courtesy

The legend of Kabirigi and Sebantu’s children

Sunday, October 19, 2025

October 1, 1990, the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA), the armed wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), launched the war to liberate Rwanda from the genocidal regime

October 6: The first RPA battle with foreign forces in Gabiro

Monday, October 06, 2025

Late Maj. Gen. Fred Gisa Rwigema

Fred Gisa Rwigema: The ultimate sacrifice for us to live in peace

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

President Felix Tshisekedi and Prime minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka is also a Belgian and, according to some reports, she did not renounce her Belgian nationality

When will DR Congo cease to be ‘Belge’? 140 years is too much

Friday, September 26, 2025

Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel won his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s individual time trial at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, on Sunday, September 21. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA

Who will claim the Rainbow Jersey in Kigali: Evenepoel or Pogačar?

Monday, September 22, 2025

Despite its large big troop numbers, nearly 20,000 troops at its peak, and considerable resources, ONUC ultimately failed the Congolese people

Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and the UN’s long failure in DR Congo

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Genocide convict Protais Zigiranyirazo, died at his residence in Niamey, Niger, where he had been living since his acquittal on August 3, 2025. COURTESY

Genocide: ‘Mr. Z’, divine justice, and the echoes of Antigone

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Some members of Jambo Asbl, a Belgium-based organization of descendants of perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Internet.

‘In defense of our fathers’: Understanding JAMBO ASBL’s genocidal legacy

Sunday, September 07, 2025

Teen girls during a reproductive health session at GS Gisagara. Courtesy

Stop worrying about teen sex — start teaching safe choices

Tuesday, September 02, 2025

From February 15 to 22, 2003, Belgium organised the first dubbed La Semaine Africaine—“African Week” initiated by then–Foreign Minister Louis Michel

Brussels’ ‘Semaine Africaine’: A gala of love or a facade of lies?

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Congolese refugees during a peaceful march on March 8, 2024. Photo by Willy Mucyo

August 22, 1997: A reminder of the forgotten Congolese Tutsi refugees

Friday, August 22, 2025

A traditional food store known as "IKIGEGA" that was used by farmers in ancient Rwanda. According to historians, Mirenge was the richest Rwandan
who existed. His story may seem mythical and hard to believe. Photo: Courtesy

Beyond myth: The story of Mirenge, Rwanda’s pre-colonial tycoon

Wednesday, August 13, 2025