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European mercenaries who surrendered to AFC/M23 rebels cross into Rwanda, where they were facilitated for repatriation to their home countries on January 29, 2025. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana.

The borders of other people’s wars

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Dozens of DR Congo soldiers from eastern DR Congo fled to Rwanda on Monday, January 27, 2025, after M23 rebels captured the border city of Goma. Courtesy.

Structural factors of conflict in DR Congo

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Former FARDC spokesperson Maj Gen Sylvain Ekenge made statements targeting Tutsi women and families, repeating long-discredited narratives historically associated with ethnic hatred. Courtesy

The Congolese government and its conflict narrative about Rwanda

Thursday, March 19, 2026
Demonstrators during the so-called 'Hutu Social Revolution' protest the Tutsi monarchy and call for majority rule in 1959 just before independence. Photo credit: The Pan African Review.

Never again or never mind: Does sanctioning RDF free Congo?

Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Sylivain Ekenge, former FARDC spokesperson and Patrick Muyaya, the Minister of Communications of the DR Congo.

Patrick Muyaya and the politics of hate

Wednesday, March 04, 2026
General Sylvain Ekenge, former spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC).

Before the violence, there is the word

Monday, March 02, 2026
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe and Urujeni Bakuramutsa, Rwanda's Permenant Representative to the UN Office in Geneva at The Durban 25 session on Monday , February 23.
Rwanda

Rwanda proposes regional front against hate speech, impunity

Monday, February 23, 2026
Map of the African Great Lakes region

Genocide without borders: An ideology

Wednesday, February 04, 2026
A visitor at Kigali Genocide Memorial. By introducing racial ideology, census classification, and ethnic identity cards, Belgian colonial rule transformed Rwanda’s social categories into permanent political identities. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda in a troubled neighbourhood: How colonial engineering shaped different destinies in the Great Lakes

Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Jean-Luc Habyarimana, son of former President Juvénal Habyarimana. INTERNET PHOTO

Jean‑Luc Habyarimana and the Genocidal nostalgia

Saturday, January 17, 2026
A view of Rubaya mining site in eastern DR Congo. Intenet

‘Blood minerals’ in DR Congo: Myth or reality?

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
President Évariste Ndayishimiye prepares to take on the chairmanship of the African Union.

Can Ndayishimiye rewrite his African story

Tuesday, January 13, 2026