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Remembered: The genocide of the Tutsi was not the product of primordial tribal feeling but it was the product of a political project, carefully constructed over decades. Photo: Rwanda Government
BUKAVU

Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2

The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…

  • Nelson Gashagaza
4 min read
Never again: The Walk to Remember, an annual, solemn, youth-led event on 7 April to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo: Flickr
COMMEMORATION

Africa’s unfinished reckoning

The question is not whether the world recognises the genocide against the Tutsi. It does. The question is whether the continent has claimed it — intellectually, historically and…

  • Albert Rudatsimburwa
5 min read
Engraved in memory: The Kigali Genocide Memorial engenders remembrance of the genocide’s victims, promoting peace and reconciliation and building peace through education. Photo: Supplied
BUKAVU

Becoming Umwana – a son

In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…

  • Nelson Gashagaza
6 min read
The commemoration, Kwibuka (which means “to remember” in Kinyarwanda), begins on April 7. The country remains in mourning for the rest of the month. Photo: Supplied
EDITORIAL

Kwibuka32: Never and never again

But as they mourn, remember and reflect on their past, Rwandans are building their country into one of the continent’s shining examples of what can be done when the people unite…

  • Editorial
3 min read
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi
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DRC crisis: Can Africans stand up to Western nations’ perpetuation of the tragic status quo?

When Congo’s President, Felix Tshisekedi, squeezes his corpulent bulk into designer clothing, accessorised with expensive watches that would feed thousands of his immiserated…

  • Albert Rudatsimburwa
12 min read
In the DRC, around 74% of the population lives in extreme poverty, living on less than $2.15 per day. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

DRC Tutsis face threats, prejudice amid rebel crisis

The DRC has accused Rwanda of backing the Tutsi-led M23 rebel group, but Kigali denies it

  • Emmet Livingstone
4 min read
Clothing makes the man: (Above, from left) Uganda’s Milton Obote, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda look more restrained in 1967 than later African presidents. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
AMASUNZU

What your president’s style says about their politics

African leaders’ sartorial choices have been communicating their political orientations for centuries

  • Eric Mwine-Mugaju
4 min read
Demonising’s danger: The belongings of the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide form part of the Nyamata Genocide Memorial in Kigali. (Jacques Nkinzingabo/AFP)
HUTU

World has failed to learn from Rwanda’s genocide

And yet, too often we are confronted with the shameful reality that the world has not learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

  • Joan Nyanyuki
4 min read
On this terrible anniversary, we stand in solidarity with the victims, their families and the survivors of the genocide in their sorrow. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Rwanda: 25 years after genocide, politics of demonisation as dangerous as ever

In the 25 years since the genocide, the world has witnessed countless crimes fuelled by the same politics of demonisation and tactics of exclusion

  • Joan Nyanyuki
3 min read
We can’t reflect on the history of the 1994 genocide without considering the critical role the media played in both inciting and prolonging the violence. (Noor Khamis/Reuters)
AMANDA GRZYB

Debating media’s role in driving Rwanda’s genocide

Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence

  • Amanda Grzyb
5 min read
CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

Rwanda Hutu rebels claim gains in DRC

Rwanda’s Hutu rebels in the DRC claimed on Friday they had inflicted heavy losses on the forces involved in the joint operation launched against them.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

DRC, Rwanda armies clash with Hutu militia

The armies of the DRC and Rwanda clashed with fighters trying to retake a village and killed four of them, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

DRC rebel Nkunda arrested

Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwandan territory after he tried to resist a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

Nkunda warns Africa not to send troops

Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government troops against him.

  • Hereward Holland
4 min read
CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

Tutsi rebels in DRC accused of murdering civilians

Tutsi rebels in eastern DRC have been accused of summarily killing civilians as they seized a town that had been the stronghold of Hutu militias.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read