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Albert Rudatsimburwa
Albert Rudatsimburwa
Maxime Prévot, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, and Development Cooperation. Net photo
Before pointing at Rwanda, Belgium must finally confront its own African history
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
President Paul Kagame greets RPF-Inkotanyi members during a campaign rally in Bugesera District on July 6, 2024. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza.
Consensual democracy: Understanding Rwanda’s homegrown political model
Monday, November 10, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron and DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi at the Elysee Palace in France on November 19, 2019.The Support Conference for Peace and Prosperity in the Great Lakes Region will take place in Paris in Thursday, October 30. Courtesy
Paris Humanitarian Conference: When misguided perceptions replace political clarity
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Close to 300 European mercenaries surrendered to M23 rebels and were allowed to cross into Rwanda before they were facilitated to take flights to their countries on Wednesday, January 29. Courtesy
The truth they don’t want told: Rwanda, DR Congo, and 30 years of denial
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Close to 300 European mercenaries surrendered to M23 rebels and were allowed to cross into Rwanda before they were facilitated to take flights to their countries on Wednesday, January 29. Courtesy
Manufacturing consent: Rwanda, DR Congo, and the Western media machine
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi.
Tshisekedi talks peace, but marches to war in eastern DR Congo
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Rubaya mining site in eastern DR Congo. File
The Rubaya revelation: Exposing Western bias in DR Congo conflict reporting
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Brig Gen Ezechiel Gakwerere of the genocidal militia FDLR and some members captured by M23 at the handover event in Rubavu District on Saturday, March 1. Photo Germain Nsanzimana
Beyond the headlines: The systematic blinders of western media in the DR Congo-Rwanda narrative
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Belgium's Minister Maxime Prévot meets DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa. Courtesy
DR Congo: US, Qatar confirm what we knew about Belgium's standing
Saturday, April 26, 2025
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Africa’s Berlin conference hangover: When European ambitions undermine African solutions
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
In 1994, after the fall of the genocidal regime in Rwanda, perpetrators fled to neighboring Zaire (now DR Congo), carrying their ideology with them. 
Addressing the baseless claims of genocide in DR Congo
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Luwowo coltan mine near Rubaya on March 18th, 2014.
Myths of coltan exploitation in DR Congo
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Some of DR Congo citizens who are Kinyarwanda Speakers, captured here undergo a severe torture in Eastern DR Congo. Courtesy
DR Congo: For the West, it's either minerals over humanity or sanctions
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Some of DR Congo citizens who are Kinyarwanda Speakers, captured here undergo a severe torture in Eastern DR Congo. Courtesy
"Genocide ignored, minerals adored: The west’s role in DR Congo’s unending tragedy"
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Some members of genocidal group FDLR are fighting along the DR Congo army in its battle against the M23 rebel group in the eastern DR Congo in 2022. File
Think tanks and the narrative of convenience: Rwanda, DR Congo, and the western agenda
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
The European Union and the US State Department have once again issued statements on the “latest developments in Eastern DR Congo.” 
Western complicity in eastern DR Congo: A crisis sustained by selective diplomacy
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
A week after M23 captured Ngungu locality in North Kivu Province, the rebels and locals teamed up in a community work exercise to trace a road from Karuba to Ngungu.
Ignoring facts, fueling misconceptions: The Guardian’s flawed narrative on M23 and DR Congo
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Members of FDLR, a notorious genocidal terrorist group.
Eastern DR Congo's deteriorating security situation: What we are not told
Monday, October 21, 2024

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