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Rwandans queuing for casting their votes during the presidential elections in 2003 at Groupe Scolaire ADEPR Kimihurura in Kigali on on August 25, 2003. File

How Rwanda rebuilt its political, governance system after 1994 

Monday, August 31, 2026
President Évariste Ndayishimiye currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the African Union for 2026. Courtesy

When rhetoric tests responsibility: Burundi, Rwanda and the burden of African Union leadership

Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Mourners during the commemoration of victims of Gatumba on August 13, 2004, when armed attackers stormed the UNHCR transit camp, killing 166 Banyamulenge refugees. Courtesy
Africa

Experts on how Burundi, DR Congo ignored Gatumba massacre

Sunday, August 16, 2026
Tito Rutaremara addresses mourners during the commemoration of victims of Gatumba on August 13, 2004, when armed attackers stormed the UNHCR transit camp, killing 166 Banyamulenge refugees. Courtesy
Rwanda

Rutaremara on how Burundi shielded genocide suspects

Friday, August 14, 2026
Kigali Convention Centre at Kimihurura. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

The "single story" of Rwanda's rise

Thursday, July 02, 2026
Some of the homes belonging to Tutsi residents that were burned by FDLR genocidal group members and FARDC soldiers during clashes with M23 rebels in Nturo Village, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. COURTESY

Can the ‘madman theory’ oust the Tutsi from their historical homelands?

Monday, June 29, 2026
Z listens intently as the trial judges find him guilty of genocide and extermination, ICTR, 18 December 2008. courtesy of UNICTR
Crime

Protais Zigiranyirazo: The rise and fall of ‘Monsieur Z’ - a cautionary tale of greed and power

Friday, June 26, 2026
Thousands of Congolese refugees took part in a peaceful march at Kigeme Refugee Camp in Nyamagabe District on Monday, December 12,2022, protesting violence against Congolese Tutsi communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and calling for greater international action to protect civilians.

The body politic, the indispensable member and the fable for identity politics

Wednesday, June 17, 2026
DR Congo President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi

Tshisekedi's endorsement of a Congolese Hutu national day raises questions

Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Mourners attend a night vigil at Kinazi Genocide Memorial in Ruhango District during the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Located in the former Amayaga region, according to Genocide survivors, Kinazi was among the areas where many Tutsi were killed by some Burundian Hutu refugees during the Genocide. Phot by Sam Ngendahimana

1994 Genocide against the Tutsi found favourable ground in the Burundian crisis

Monday, June 15, 2026
Congolese refugees from Kigeme Refugee Camp take part in a peaceful walk calling for action to end the ongoing killings targeting members of the Tutsi and Banyamulenge communities in Eastern DR Congo

The ethnic identity politics in DR Congo are fundamentally domestic in origin

Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Burned remains of houses belonging to Tutsi communities in eastern DR Congo. The people of Minembwe, in South Kivu, continue to be subjected to regular mortar and kamikaze drone attacks. Courtesy.

The rhetoric of ‘non-natives’ in DR Congo: Echoes in current ethnopolitics

Wednesday, June 03, 2026