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Rwanda, with other few places to have witnessed Genocide, will perpetually continue to suffer from Genocide’s consequences; including a tendency to deny or defy it-a process commonly known as Genocide denial. It’s been only 25 years since the crime of all crimes was committed in Rwanda and despite a remarkable…

One team, ten members – everyone has their own incredible story and hopes. Six girls and four boys under 18 years, coming from three refugee camp (Gihembe, Mahama and Nyabiheke) both Congolese and Burundians, with their background and challenging experiences, to part to this competition with the one goal: Demonstrate…

If you think rural to urban migration only applies to human beings think again. In Botswana it now applies to elephants as well. Previously known to roam in rural areas, Botswana’s ever-increasing elephants are now ‘spilling’ from the iconic Chobe National Park into the nearby Town of Kasane where they…

They call them the ‘600’. These rugged men who did the unimaginable. True warriors. Who paved the way for the end of the genocide. They were soldiers who had accompanied the senior politicians of the Rwanda Patriotic Front to Kigali for the implementation of the peace accord that had been…

It is both a slave-master and a neocolonial racist thinking that gives Western animal rights groups and the Western media the right to tell poverty-stricken Africans not to use their own wildlife to benefit conservation and development in Africa. Who do the animal rights groups and the Western media think…

Rwandan Diaspora in Australia (RDA) has vowed to protest a denial event targeting Genocide Against Tutsi in 1994 which is scheduled to take place in Queensland Parliament House, Australia. The event will be featuring Amiel Nubaha and his group of Rwandan Association of Queensland who are well known as ‘denials…

In her book “In Praise of Blood,” Canadian author Judi Rever controversially claims that not one, but two genocides were committed in Rwanda in 1994. The first genocide nearly wiped out the Tutsi minority. A second one, secretly committed by the Tutsi dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), allegedly targeted the…

The Economist on March 28, ran an article on Rwanda that appeared to be appropriate at this time when Rwandans mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi. The article -: Rwanda: 25 years after the genocide, how well has Rwanda healed? suggested that it was going to…

Over centuries, Africans have massively scattered all around the world and settled there for years. It wasn’t their intentional decisions in early moments but it turned out to be their own decisions as years wrapped on afterwards. Whichever way, it all resulted in extensive number of people with African origins…

Ugandan security bodies have taken farther shameful steps in their ongoing quest to torture Rwandans by attacking under-aged minors who are in Uganda for academic purposes. On the night of March 13, 2019, a group of three Rwandans stranded at Kagitumba border from Uganda where they have experienced excessive torturing…

The CNN article is right about one thing: It is no accident that a statue of a strong, gracious Rwandan woman stands tall at our main round about – fittingly! I have elaborated, in legal terms and with evidence, on the crimes of the two ladies portrayed as saviors of…

Recently President Paul Kagame of Rwanda completed his one year tenure as the Chairperson of the African Union and handled over the chairmanship to the Egyptian President Fattah El-Sisi during the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. President Kagame has…

It is only by grasping what this trap by the Ugandan regime that we shall get to the root of the problem between Uganda and Rwanda and understand Rwanda’s recent choice of its course of action. It’s almost two years now since Rwanda-Uganda relations started escalating to worrying levels. This…

Western scholars need to spend time to explain to the rest of the world why their own model of democracy has failed and the risks involved for other countries to emulate it, and also make efforts to learn how there are emerging successful models that are not cloned from the…

Western animal rights groups are again using their formidable resources to demand that world trade in both elephant tusks and rhino horns be banned. But this effort will only have the effect of increasing demand and prices for these products as consumers fear for their future unavailability, triggering yet another…

The cause of the deadly ebola virus has at last been discovered in a Liberian laboratory. The rest of Africa should be rejoicing. Prohibiting the eating of a particular bat species — just as we know not to eat some types of mushrooms —maysignificantly limit the further loss of human…

China has demonstrated to the world that the health of its citizens is of paramount importance. On October 29, 2018, the Government of China published a Notice that it was re-opening domestic trade in rhino horn and tiger bones. The Notice states that “rhino horns and tiger bones” must be…

This week, the British Government and Prince William will be in the service of a radical animal rights group — the Elephant Protection Initiative. The British Government together with EPI have organized a Conference of African states in London aimed at permanently banning international trade in ivory. The African countries…

AN OPEN LETTER TO BOTSWANA PRESIDENT MOKGWEETSI MASISI RE: Dismiss Environment Minister Khama For Favouring Animal Rights Groups Over Your Wildlife Policies Dear President Masisi, I applaud your decision to rejoin the pro-hunting and pro- ivory trade governments of the SADC region, restoring Botswana to the only course that will…

The world’s weather patterns seem to have gone bananas. Hurricane Florence has unleashed her anger off the Eastern Coast of the United States but it is still too early to assess the extent of the damage. But early images show the eastern part of the US is under water which…