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 …
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With Profits Threatened, Bus Companies Are Fiercely Opposed to New Provincial Operations System
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Muramba 1997 – Tracing Another Girls’ School Attacked by Abacengezi Insurgents in Western Rwanda
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For more than two decades, regional and international partners have invested immense diplomatic effort to stabilize eastern DR Congo, yet the cycle of agreements, commitments, and renewed conflict has persisted. …
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President Paul Kagame on Thursday delivered one of his most direct and philosophical analyses of Africa’s political instability—addressing the surge of coups, the rise of Gen-Z protest movements, and the …
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A secret program between the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan militia group FDLR has seen the rebel group’s elite forces sent to Kinshasa to …
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