Why Women Are Filling Up Kagame Rallies
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…
A Flashback on 2010 Elections
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…
10 Reasons Why God Sleeps in Rwanda
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…
EXCLUSIVE: Frank Habineza’s Brutal Journey to 2017 Ballot Paper
The 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…
Can Rwanda Police all Troubled Countries?
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…
Powering Rwanda’s Remotest Areas Back to Life
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…
Rwanda’s Greatest Risks
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…
Meet the People to Whom Vernier Caliper Was Applied
It 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…
The Killers Deliberately Spared Sylvestre Rusanganwa to be “Museum Tutsi”
His assignment was to graze cows that had been looted. He was also charged with slaughtering them, roast the meat for his bosses who were out at “work” all day…
Tears for the Victims: The World Leaders Who Cried for Genocide Victims
Former US President George W. Bush asked the Secret Service to move out. The First Lady of Benin Mrs Claudine Tallon couldn’t hold back her tears. Renowned comedian…
Neither “Tutsi” nor “Hutu”: The Pain of Arabs Before and During Genocide
Saidi Yahaya 31, is a Rwandan of Arab descent whose parents intermarried with Rwandans and Belgians on both sides of his family tree. At the start of genocide against the…
Here is a Copy of the Notorious Blacklist for Tutsis
All 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…
