Fighters from the M23 rebel group have seized swathes of territory and captured two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year - Arlette Bashizi/Reuters Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with ...

On July 13, 2025, The Guardian published an article with the speculative and loaded title: “Rwanda and Russia look to lock in influence as CAR president eyes third term.” Written from Abidjan, Ivory ...

It seems as if right is wrong and wrong is right if one is to go by the recent editorial opinion by The Economist regarding life in Rwanda today. In a long piece that oozes slanted opinion, skewed ...

In April 1994, the parents of two-year-old Samuel Ishimwe were murdered in Rwanda. Their fate was shared by up to a million people in the genocide against the country’s Tutsi minority. Thirty years on ...

It seems as if right is wrong and wrong is right if one is to go by a recent editorial opinion by The Economist regarding life in Rwanda today. In a long slanted opinion, skewed reporting and analysis ...

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...

Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe's natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles. For decades, Belgian officials ...

Many African countries had indigenous languages before colonisation imposed the languages of the colonial powers, typically English, French, or Portuguese. Tanzania’s colonial language was English ...

The repertoire of most Congolese popular painting in the 1970s involved the theme of colone belge ("Belgian colony"): an African policeman preparing to beat a prone African prisoner, while under the ...

Opinion - The ancient kingdom of Rwanda had a rich tradition of ritual objects that were integral to both the royal court and spiritual practice. These sacred items carried deep symbolic and ...