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Amani Athar
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According to historians Belgium deposed Bucyanayandi to eliminate a rear base for Rwandan Tutsi.
Why Belgium deposed Bucyanayandi to eliminate a rear base for Rwandan Tutsi
Friday, January 16, 2026
Bwishya chiefdom in eastern DR Congo.
Why Belgians created a Kingdom of Banyabwisha from scratch
Monday, January 12, 2026
Some Kinyarwanda-speaking citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo are pictured being subjected to severe torture in eastern DR Congo.
How native Congolese were made foreigners: Case of the Tutsi of Nyiragongo
Tuesday, January 06, 2026
General Sylvain Ekenge, former spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC)
Gen Ekenge's scandal: A sign of the downfall of a genocidal regime
Friday, January 02, 2026
Former President of Rwanda Grégoire Kayibanda in 1957, launched the Bahutu Manifesto, a document that laid the groundwork for anti-Tutsi racial hatred.
Ndi Umukongomani can help defeat Kayibanda successors in DR Congo
Monday, December 29, 2025
King Yuhi V Musinga with the Queen Mother (his mother) Nyirayuhi V Kanjongera.
Yuhi V Musinga: The King who breathed his last because he preferred exile to baptism
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Some of the residential houses of Tutsi that were burned by FDLR genocidial group members and FARDC soldiers during the fighting against M23 rebels at Nturo Village in eastern DR Congo.
Here is why post-genocide Rwanda is not the source of Congolese woes
Monday, December 22, 2025
Rwanda had a rich tradition in which cultural symbols carried deep ceremonial meaning and represented power and divine authority.
Revisiting Nyarushara, the divine hammer of Rwanda’s ancient kingdom
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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
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Nyaruteja peace pact: A lesson of reconciliation, peace and respect between neighbours
Friday, November 07, 2025
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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

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