KIGALI — When Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) announced a $30 million commitment to a new fund targeting small and medium-sized businesses, the headline figure was modest. The underlying shift,…
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A generation’s promise to remember , protect the truth, and build a future that never repeats the past. We Will Never Forget, And Here’s Why The other day, Olivier Nduhungirehe…
The Rwandan Government continues to warn that genocide denial is evolving globally, while exposing the international community’s repeated failures since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, including its reluctance in…
In 1994, Rwanda was engulfed in the Genocide against the Tutsi, a catastrophe that claimed more than one million Tutsi lives in just one hundred days. Yet the plan and…
Genocide Deniers Hide Behind ‘Opposition Activism’ in Failed Attempt to Rewrite Rwanda’s History
As genocide denial continues to resurface in different forms, mainly coming from genocidaires and their descendants, it is important to separate two issues that are too often deliberately conflated: political…
The continued political agitation by members of the family of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana is not about justice, reconciliation, or historical truth. It is about power—lost power—and a persistent…
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