KIGALI – Africa is often described as a continent rich in opportunity. It possesses vast natural resources, the world’s youngest population and growing economic influence. Yet for Professor PLO Lumumba, …
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KIGALI – The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the militia group established by perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, is abandoning its identity as a …
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NAIROBI / KIGALI — Rwanda has signed a landmark energy agreement with Kenya that could significantly reshape regional fuel trade routes in East Africa, marking a strategic shift in petroleum …
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The death of Félicien Kabuga closes one of the longest and most painful chapters of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda — but not in the way …
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From Playgrounds to Profit: Masai Ujiri’s Vision to Make African Sport a Serious Business
by Fred Mwasaby Fred MwasaKIGALI — For decades, African sport has been treated largely as entertainment — a source of national pride, youth recreation and international spectacle, but rarely as a serious economic engine. …
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Kigali — Every litre of fuel sold in Rwanda has already traveled thousands of miles before reaching a pump. It has crossed oceans, passed through global trading hubs, moved across …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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It Didn’t End in 1994”: Genocide Survivor Adele Kibasumba on Memory, Violence, and the Limits of ‘Never Again’
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, …
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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 …
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Martyrs of Reason: The Legacies of Prof. Rumiya and Andrea Kameya—The Men Who Defied the Genocide Ideology
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, …
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