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• US Congress Writes to John Kerry About Kagame’s Persistent Criminal Actions...

  

  On 11 March 2014, Edward R. Royce, chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the US Congress wrote to the Secretary of State John Kerry highlighting the... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 SOCIETY

• African Ingenuity in Action

  “Mutu arespecte Congo aza te,” says Paul Kagame in the clip. If my translation is correct that means – there is nobody who respects DRC. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Rwandan Politicians: How Popular Are They Among Rwandans?

  

  Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, FDU-Inkingi leaderOn February 23rd 2014, the online news outlet theRwandan asked its readership to vote from a list of nine names... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Women Keeping Rwandans’ Hope Alive

  

  “I am several people in one person”, explains Angelique Umugwaneza when she is asked who she really is.Angelique Umugwaneza – Author of “Les Enfants du Rwanda”... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 SOCIETY

• The Blog “Rising Continent” Has Four Years Aiming to Make a Difference in...

  

  Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire, imprisoned leader of FDU-Inkingi. She was sentenced to 15 years of jail last December.The first post “On Kagame’s Rwanda” was... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Nadine Claire Kasinge: “Dictatorship is out of Place in Rwanda”.

  On Saturday February 22nd, 2014, while intervening in Kinyarwanda on Radio Itahuka, one of the many online broadcasters of the Rwandan opposition, Nadine... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 SOCIETY

• As Rwanda Piles Up Yet More Debt, Paul Kagame Is Still Not Telling Full Truth...

  

  By Bosco Mutarambirwa, MBADue to understandable fear that his dictatorial regime is coming to an end, Paul Kagame is rapidly mortgaging the country to ensure... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Why Africans Should Support Justice in DRC by Acknowledging the Congolese...

  

  By BK Kumbi The sadness of the woman in the picture is the same as that of millions of Congolese and it calls upon on our common humanity to do something.... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 SOCIETY

• RPF Sustained Propaganda on Hutu Being Rapists

  The most recent occurrences of such propaganda were on 10 and 14 February 2014, in Paris and Seattle respectively. During the ongoing court hearing of the case... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Response to Genocide Expert Dr. Gerald Caplan’s Most Recent Hysteria About Rwand...

  

  By Keith Harmon SnowDear Rabble:Since the 80s the Great Lakes region has experienced genocides, war crimes, crimes against humanity, so much so that the entire... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Leonidas Byamungu Witnessed RPF Killings from His Prison’s Cell for 4 Years He...

  He was 22 years old in 1994. He comes from the region of Ngororero in the previously called Commune of Kibilira. Accused with his father in 1995 of being... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Open Letter Addressed to President Paul Kagame Demanding Immediate Release of...

  

  Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa: one of the four who are still detained by the police and whose head has been seriously injured by the beating according to sources i... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Simplistic Racist Views of African Conflicts

  

  Victims of conflicts according to the size of corresponding populations – Graph Courtesy of Donna Westlund“Why is the media coverage, for example, of conflicts... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 SOCIETY

• The Scholarship Saga Under the Rwandan Patriotic Front Government

  

  Young people without official employment across Rwanda are being round up. On 23/08/12, this group was taken into police custody in Rusizi area. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Tony Blair & Co Should Be Ashamed of Continuing Backing Paul Kagame

  I have learn history, especially the one about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, the alliances he developed to achieve his political and expansionist... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Foreign-African Armies: a Serious Danger for the Continent

  

  Who is rethinking African development?It is said and widely accepted that countries only have interests. They don’t have friends. Africa as a continent is... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Central African Republic: UNSC Resolution 2127 of December 5th, 2013

  

  Seleka rebels. Picture courtesy The GuardianThis is yet another African state to fall under a UN mandate. Facilitating instability then playing the savior card... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Upcoming Rwandan Genocide: Holes Being Dug as in 1993/94

  

  Some of the victims of hatred planted by Tutsi extremists in the Rwandan society for their insatiable hunger of political power.Kigali, the Rwandan capital, doe... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 SOCIETY

• If It Were a Genocide Against the Tutsi ONLY by the Hutu, How Come That There...

  

  Prof. Charles KambandaWho killed those Hutu and “others” to the extent that the Hutu make the majority of the people killed?After a lot of lobbying and... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Rwanda Genocide: Official Narrative Further Falling Apart

  In his recently published book – Rwanda: un genocide en questions -, Bernard Lugan explains that the deliberations and hearings held over many years at the... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 SOCIETY