UN Report: Genocidaire FDLR Network Spans 25 Countries
One of Africa’s most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, including the United States and some in Europe, a United Nations report said....
View ArticleAnti-Islamists barred from entering UK. Home Secretary says activists’...
Two of the people behind a campaign against the building of the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York have been barred from entering Britain to speak at an English Defence League rally in London this...
View ArticleLiving with the FDLR in the DR Congo jungle, Congolese are held hostage
By Arnaud Zajtman Night had already fallen when bandits armed with machetes stormed Binja Mukende’s home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and slaughtered her husband in front of her. There is no...
View ArticleThe problem of sympathising with the FDLR
By Dr. Lonzen Rugira On May 26 during the 50th birthday party for the African Union – and the Organization of African Unity before it – the signatories of the most recent peace accords aimed at ending...
View ArticlePerezida Joseph Kabila yabaye umuhuza wa Ingabire Victoire na FDLR-Berwouts
Na: Tom Ndahiro Umugabo witwa Kris Berwouts ni umubiligi wari umaze imyaka ayobora ihuriro rya rya za ONG z’Ibulayi ziyita ko zikorera ubuvugizi Afurika yo Hagati. Mu magambo ahinnye iryo huriro rizwi...
View ArticlePaix et sécurité dans la région des Grands Lacs: le défi ignoré*
Par Privat Rutazibwa Théâtre de violences au temps de la décolonisation, de guerres civiles et de purifications ethniques au cours des décennies 60 et 70, et de génocide, guerre régionale et nouvelles...
View ArticleFour Variables in Preventive Diplomacy: Their Application in the Rwanda Case
By Rick Orth Introduction On 6 April 1994, Hutu extremists shot down Rwandan President Habyarimana’s plane and began the systematic execution of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.1 In less than an hour,...
View ArticleWhy Africans Must Move Beyond Obama’s Triangular Tour
Obama’s visit to Africa elicited varied reactions – as expected. There are those who reacted with indifference, expecting little or nothing to come from the visit. Others received his visit with muted...
View ArticleUmunyamakuru Venuste Nshimiyimana wa BBC mu mugambi wa jenoside
Na: Tom Ndahiro Imyaka igiye kuba icumi radiyo BBC- Gahuzamiryango ihitishije ikiganiro umwe mu banyamakuru babo yagiranye n’abajenosideri bafungiye muri Mali. Uwo munyamakuru ni Venuste Nshimiyimana...
View ArticleUmunyamakuru wa BBC yari muri “Dream Team” y’Interahamwe n’Impuzamugambi
Na: Tom Ndahiro Radiyo rutwitsi RTLM yumvikanye bwa mbere ku ya 8 Nyakanga 1993. Ibyo Kangura yabyanditse munsi y’inkuru ifite umutwe “RTLM: Aho umututsi yanitse ntiriva”[1]. Ubundi mu Kinyarwanda uko...
View ArticleIngengabitekerezo ya jenoside iri muri Dr. GASANA Anastase ni uburambe...
Na: Dr BIZIMANA Jean Damascene Umunyarwanda yaciye umugani ko akabaye icwende katoga ndetse yongeraho ko agakambye ugatega u Rwanda. Umenya abaciye iyo migani yombi barahuye n’abantu bameze nka GASANA...
View ArticleIl est temps de mettre toute l’intelligence congolaise au service de la lutte...
Jul 22, 2013 Elu il y a quelques jours président de Pole Institute (Institut Interculturel dans la Région des Grands Lacs), le a souhaité aborder de front avec Le Potentiel le problème de la...
View ArticleThe Human Rights Watch’s swivel-eyed lunacy on Rwanda
By Sonia Uwimana on July 22, 2013 in Opinion, Politics A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and it is invariably people with very little knowledge who regard Human Rights Watch as a credible voice...
View ArticleHow To Eat An Egg In A Rebounding Rwanda
By Patricia Crisafuli & Andrea Redmond In a rural preschool at Rugarama in northern Rwanda, some two hours north of the capital city of Kigali, 90 or so three- to six-year-olds sit patiently on a...
View ArticleThe United Nations is Reopening Rwanda’s Wounds
By Joseph Klein Starting in April 1994, the horror of genocide engulfed the people of Rwanda. The United Nations had peacekeeping forces on the ground there, with a commanding officer who pleaded to...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch on Rwanda: Errors and Lies Repeated
By Sonia Uwimana on July 23, 2013 RwandaResponds is the official government website that combats misinformation about Rwanda. This morning they have addressed the humiliating error contained in the...
View ArticleInside DR Congo Humbug Manufacturing Machine
On a Tuesday afternoon of June 11, 2013, an unknown number appeared on the phone of Goma-based journalist Mafisango. When he picked up, a voice sounding authoritative summoned him to a known military...
View ArticleRacism is like Cancer
I hate racism with every fiber of my being!! Perhaps I shouldn’t use the word”hate” considering racism is a form of hate. But racism is a cancer on the world. It’s first cousin, bigotry, shares many of...
View ArticleHate crime, or just hateful words?
There seems no doubt that Riley Cooper’s booze-fueled racial epithet hurled at a black security guard at Lincoln Financial Field was some pretty hateful speech. But did the Eagle wide-receiver’s tirade...
View ArticleRacism is a curse
Profiling: We all do it. Constantly. And it ain’t always racist. The practice has gotten a bum rap lately without deserving it. Let’s be careful about the meaning we load into it. There’s profiling and...
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