Special Reports

KIGALI — In the early months of each year, Rwanda’s banks perform a familiar ritual: they open their books. Balance sheets are published, profits tallied, and executives step forward to …

On October 2, 1961, addressing Members of Parliament, Grégoire Kayibanda—who would soon become Rwanda’s first president after independence—framed the country’s new political order as one rooted in majority rule, urging …

  One of the peculiarities of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi was, like during the Holocaust, the eagerness by some women to commit genocide and other crimes against humanity. …

KIGALI — The phrase “Never Again” echoes across memorial sites, in speeches, and on global platforms—especially during the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. But for Adele Kibasumba, …

KIGALI — Speaking via Google Meet from her base in the United States, Congolese activist Adele Kibasumba leans into the camera with a message for a generation she believes is …

KIGALI – Professor Jean Gualbert Rumiya and journalist Andrea Kameya are among the political figures laid to rest at the Rebero Genocide Memorial—men remembered not only for how they died, …

Four months after the signing of a peace agreement presented as historic, war continues in eastern DRC. In a interview with French magazine JeuneAfrique, the President Paul Kagame defends an …

KIGALI — In a typical classroom on the outskirts of Kigali, more than 70 children squeeze onto wooden benches, sharing a handful of textbooks as a teacher moves quickly from …

On the drive through Kigali — from Kimihurura to Remera, from busy roundabouts to the entrances of shopping centers — it is becoming harder to miss them. Sleek electric cars …

KIGALI — The Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) is no longer an obscure remnant of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, but a deeply embedded …

In the years when Rwanda was transitioning into a republic, many young men stepped forward eager to serve their country. Among them were Ruhashya Epimaque and Juvénal Habyarimana. Each followed …

In the hills and forests of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the war is being fought not only with rifles, mortars and drones. It is also fought with language. …