Society

In the early days of April 1994, as violence spread rapidly across Rwanda, some communities in Bugesera did not immediately yield to the genocide. In villages surrounding Ntarama Catholic Church, …

KIGALI — For Jean Marie Vianney Karangwa, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi did not begin with the sudden explosion of violence in April. It began decades earlier, woven into …

KIGALI — At the start of Kwibuka32, Rwanda’s 32nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, President Paul Kagame delivered one of his most emotional and defining messages: that …

KIGALI — In one of the most sobering and sharply critical parts of his Kwibuka32 address, President Paul Kagame revisited the international community’s response to the 1994 Genocide against the …

KIGALI — President Paul Kagame used his Kwibuka32 address to deliver a defiant message against what he described as persistent efforts to distort Rwanda’s history and question its intentions, warning …

On a recent Saturday evening, the energy inside a Remera fitness studio felt closer to a celebration than a workout. More than 100 women gathered at FitnessPoint for “Ride in …

KIGALI – Students at FAWE Girls School in Kigali were inspired on March 30 after a screening of “Beyond the Clouds”, a Chinese film highlighting education for girls from disadvantaged …

In many African communities, the birth of a child with a disability is often met with a heavy silence—a stigma that leads too frequently to concealment. In these settings, children …

RUBAVU — On the surface, Mutesi Pascaline’s journey to higher education looks like a standard academic progression. In reality, it is a path that was nearly derailed by years of …

  KIGALI, Rwanda — On this Wednesday, inside the cavernous BK Arena, thousands of Rwandan Muslims gathered in celebration just days after Eid al-Fitr, their presence filling the stands in …

For a long time, Marie Grace Kansayisa’s world was defined by the binary logic of numbers. Growing up in Rwanda, she watched her mother navigate the structured world of accounting …

In the hills of Nyaruguru, Southern Province, a young mother once stood at the crossroads of survival and despair. As the persecution of Tutsis intensified, she gathered her children and …