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Eric Senderi performs his commemoration song Nyarubuye Iwacu Hari Heza with a group during a commemoration event at the Nyarubuye Genocide Memorial. File

Melodies of agahinda: The guardians of memory

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Officials pose for a group photo with student representatives during the launch of the fifth edition of the Ndi Umunyarwanda initiative in secondary schools at the Lycée de Kigali on March 10. File.

Education and the long struggle against genocide ideology

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
A medic administers a Covid-19 vaccine at BK Arena in Kigali on March 6, 2021. File

Why does the world refuse to fund the best security strategy?

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Inyambo cattle during a festival in Nyanza in 2024. File
Editorial

The recognition of Inyambo is beyond cultural symbolism

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
French soldiers oversee the training of Interahamwe militia ahead of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. French forces on the ground were reported to have trained militia members and, in some instances, operated alongside genocidal forces in opposition to the Rwanda Patriotic Army. Internet

France fabricated reasons to stage Operation Turquoise

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
A dignified burial of 27 victims laid to rest during the 32nd commemoration at Mukarange Genocide Memorial on Sunday, April 13. Courtesy
Editorial

The power of early lessons in defeating Genocide ideology 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi at Rebero Genocide Memorial. Photo by Craish Bahizi

A letter to negationists: During these 100 days, let memory be sacred

Monday, April 13, 2026
President of DR Congo Felix Tshisekedi and Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye

The calculated historical blindness of Burundi and DR Congo

Monday, April 13, 2026
Mourners read names of the victims at the closing of the National Mourning Week in an event at the Rebero Genocide Memorial on Monday, April 13. Photo by Craish Bahizi

Reclaiming the Narrative: A Call for Rwanda’s Youth to tell their Story

Monday, April 13, 2026
The New Times

Reclaiming the narrative: A call for Rwanda’s youth to tell their story

Monday, April 13, 2026
Clockwise: Celestin Mutabaruka, Dr Vincent Bajinya, Emmanuel Nteziryayo, Celestin Ugirashebuja, Charles Munyaneza are Genocide fugitives who live in the UK. File

Kwibuka 32 in London: Remembrance grows, but justice remains elusive

Monday, April 13, 2026
A dignified burial of 27 victims laid to rest during the 32nd commemoration at Mukarange Genocide Memorial on Sunday, April 13. Courtesy.
Editorial

Commemoration does not end in one week

Sunday, April 12, 2026
A genocide suspect gives explanations during the Gacaca Court in 2004. File

From memory to prevention: What the world must learn from Rwanda

Sunday, April 12, 2026
Red-Cross volunteers help a trauma victim during a Walk to Remember from ETO Kicukiro to Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide Memorial on Saturday, April 11. Photo by Craish BAHIZI

Climbing memory and a living monument for remembrance in Kigali

Sunday, April 12, 2026
Parimehutu members during a celebration of the so called 'Rwanda's Independence' following the atrocities of 1959. Courtesy

They exiled us - not our identity

Sunday, April 12, 2026
Wreaths at Nyanza-Kicukiro Genocide Memorial that were laid on Saturday, April 11 in honour of the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi interred at the memorial. Photo by Craish BAHIZI

How Rwanda moved from genocide to renewal

Sunday, April 12, 2026
A volunteer helps a trauma victim during a commemoration event at Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide Memorial on Saturday, April 11. Photo by Craish BAHIZI

Seeking mental health care is not a weakness

Saturday, April 11, 2026
The New Times

MY 2 CENTS: My only pick in the world this week

Saturday, April 11, 2026
Thousands of mourners during "Our Past" commemoration event held at Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide Memorial on Thursday, April 9. Photo by Craish BAHIZI

Kwibuka 32: When words become weapons of denial

Saturday, April 11, 2026
A photograph of a list of leading contributors to RTLM, preserved in the archives at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. In 1994, the big powers that had the means to jam or disrupt broadcasts of the hate radio, RTLM, that fanned hate, spread genocide ideology and directed the killers, refused to do so on the grounds that it would be a violation of Rwanda’s sovereignty. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

When sovereignty is excuse for inaction

Friday, April 10, 2026