Voices

The Washington Accords were intended to address one of the most persistent security challenges in the Great Lakes region being the neutralization of the genocidal FDLR in eastern DRC. Yet …

  In the study of historic atrocities, scholars recognize genocide not as a singular event, but as a multi-stage process. The final phase is always denial which involves the systematic …

For more than two decades, the United Nations has maintained a major peacekeeping presence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), first through MONUC and, since 2010, through MONUSCO. …

Rwanda today and the capacity to anticipate As Rwanda just marked the beginning of the successful struggle to liberate the nation from the grip of genocidal forces, we always wonder …

Every year on October 1st, Rwanda marks Patriotism Day a date carved into the bedrock of our national consciousness. On this morning in 1990, a generation of young men and …

A disturbing statement by the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Zénon Mukongo Ngay, has once again exposed Kinshasa’s dangerous narrative about Rwanda’s history …

While Patrick Muyaya’s propaganda machine promises victory, on the ground and in New York, Kinshasa is losing. Addressing the UN Security Council in New York, Rwanda’s representative, Ambassador Martin Ngoga …

On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye sat down with France 24 and portrayed himself as a victim of Rwandan aggression, a man simply asking …

In recent interventions before the UN General Assembly, Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye and DRC Prime Minister Judith Suminwa have sought to dismiss Rwanda’s security concerns over the persistent and existential …

President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s role in escalating the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is a major concern not only for the Congolese people but for the entire region. He …

For more than two decades, Vincent Bajinya lived quietly in the United Kingdom under the alias Vincent Brown. Granted British citizenship in 2004 after what appears to have been minimal …

NEW YORK — The world’s most powerful leaders gather in New York for the high-level General Debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, under a theme that sounds less …