This Sunday, August 11, 2024, President Paul Kagame will be sworn in for a new term, marking yet another chapter in Rwanda’s journey. In the past years, the nation has …
Fred Mwasa
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Imagine a time when only 2.6% of Rwandans had health insurance. This wasn’t a distant past, but the reality for Rwanda in the mid-1990s. Access to healthcare was limited, and …
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Rwanda Decides 2024
A Campaign of YouTubers, Disposable Cups, Rwandan Songs
by Daniel Sabiiti & Fred Mwasaby Daniel Sabiiti & Fred MwasaAt the media podium on all the campaign sites of President Paul Kagame and his coalition partners, there is an unusual sight; popular YouTubers and social media influencers. These have …
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Following independence, Gregoire Kayibanda government planned a donor-funded road to directly connect Ruhengeri (now Musanze) in the north with Gitarama (now Muhanga) in the center. The whole ruling class hailed …
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On April 8, 1993, UN special rapporteur Bacre Waly Ndiaye arrived in Rwanda to investigate the worsening political, security and humanitarian situation. He visited several camps for internally displaced persons …
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Rwanda stands at a crossroads as it heads into the general election; parliamentary and presidential due July-September, 2024. To shed light on this critical moment, we are launching a groundbreaking …
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Special Reports
Apology or NOT: How Ingabire Victoire Negotiated her Freedom from Rwanda Prison
by Fred Mwasaby Fred MwasaAbout two months before the official opening of her trial in 2011 at the High Court of Rwanda in Kigali on serious charges including ethnic divisionism, Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza sought …
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When the Genocide erupted April 7, 1994, he was dressed in that jacket, a t-shirt and shorts. He wore the same cloths until September 1994 when the new government arrived …
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Society
Kigali and Tel Aviv Have Much Work to Do Beyond Embassies & Migrants
by Fred Mwasaby Fred MwasaFor two weeks in November 2011, twelve editors from some of the biggest media in the United States crisscrossed Rwanda. My employer at the time charged me with the task …
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should seize this “opportunity” to end the presence of Rwandan FDLR rebels on its territory once and for all, the country’s Defense minister, …
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Ngoma district in Eastern Rwanda, is known for its green lush, with a large expanse of land, but big part of it is completely abandoned. Its soils are fertile producing …