As the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi began, the identity of the enemy to be hunted in every corner of Rwanda had already been made clear: the Tutsi. Yet in…
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The Ghost of Albert Maus Resurfaces: Burundian Ambassador’s Threats to Rwanda and the Unbroken Chain of Hutu Power
When Burundi’s ambassador to Belgium, Thérence Ntahiraja, recently warned Rwandans to “prepare for war” and voiced support for the genocidal FDLR, his remarks amounted to a confession. They revealed an…
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects in East Africa are moving forward again after several years of delays. Now, the focus needs to shift to delivering projects on time and within…
When the Basketball Africa League launched in 2021, many viewed it as an ambitious experiment. Six years later, the BAL has grown into one of the continent’s biggest sporting events,…
A few years ago, the idea that thousands of fans across Africa would fill world-class arenas to watch a continental basketball league backed by the NBA felt ambitious, if not…
The Rwandan leader may no longer be chairman of the African Union, but President Kagame’s shadow looms larger than ever across the continent. In the race to secure Africa’s energy…
It was a high-stakes, late Sunday afternoon on April 25, 2004, when Arsenal F.C. officially sealed the Premier League title. The stage was White Hart Lane, the backyard of their…
At the corridors of the Africa CEO Forum 2026 in Kigali, where presidents, investors, bankers and industrialists spent two days discussing Africa’s economic future, two absences quietly stood out. There…
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room of African Chief Executives and leaders when one of their own tells them they have no one to…
In his latest press conference, President Félix Tshisekedi said the quiet part out loud. He has no intention of ever leaving power. And to stay there, he appears to have…
There is a pattern in the way President Paul Kagame moves across the global stage and it is not random. In just a few weeks, his stops stretch from France,…
There is something profoundly tragic about watching a nation of over 100 million people reduce its entire governance strategy to a manic, poorly executed imitation of its smaller neighbor. Yet…