Marthe Mukambonera never studied beyond primary school level. When she got married about 30 years ago, she remained a house wife but didn’t want to let her husband remain a…
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When government-orchestrated massacres of a section of Rwandan society in the late 1950s started, relatives of the current speaker of Parliament Donatile Mukabalisa were among them. She is a native…
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The 2017 battle for votes is down to three candidates. All campaigns have packed their bags for a very tight schedule spanning only 20 days. It may not be possible…
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There was the Fodors’ 2013 ‘twelve’ reasons to travel to Rwanda. The country maintained year to year win at the world’s largest tourism expo the ITB Berlin. On CNN’s…
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EXCLUSIVE: Frank Habineza’s Brutal Journey to 2017 Ballot Paper
by KT Press Staff Writer 4:37 pmThe day was October 30, 2009. There was a near stampede when a group of people tried to gather at a pre-arranged location in Kigali. In a split second, a…
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Peacekeeping Rules May Have to Change to Avoid What Happened in Rwanda While South Africans were piecing themselves together after stamping out apartheid, up north in 1994, Rwanda was tearing…
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Until 2009, each able home in Mulindi village located in Kirehe district had to pay Rwf 3,000 per month to local businessman David Nduwumwami for electricity. He owned the only…
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The 15 Risky Projects That Could Have Brought Down Government When the late founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew took over power in 1959, a simple but radical formula…
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Nyarubuye’s ‘Simba’ The Cannibal that Roasted and Ate Tutsi Hearts
by Leonard Nshimiyimana 8:08 pmDaniel Rugayamukama was notorious for hunting down every Tutsi . Whenever he grabbed victims, he would cut them and remove their hearts, roast them and eat them – this ritual…
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Meet the People to Whom Vernier Caliper Was Applied
by Julius Rwakarema & Jean de la Croix Tabaro 8:55 amIt is a Wednesday morning of 1956, Monsignor Eulade Rudahunga then a young priest, had concluded the morning mass in Save parish, the first ever in Rwanda located in Butare…
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Here is a Copy of the Notorious Blacklist for Tutsis
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 8:53 amAll days were traumatic since the 1960s for the Tutsi in Rwanda but September 21, 1992 brought a new painful development in the long plan to wipe out the ethnic…
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A Day at Home with Elderly Genocide Widows
by Denyse Tuyishime & Leonard Nshimiyimana 8:52 amAfter losing her entire family in the genocide 23 years ago, Marrianne Mukarusine 79, has found a new family: Thanks to a government housing initiative, she now shares her life…