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Rwanda’s Tutsi minority has been in power for 30 years – but study finds ethnicity doesn’t matter to people if their needs are met

Thirty years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a predominantly Tutsi armed group, took over Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city – and soon after, the country’s governance. This victory occurred amid a horrific genocide masterminded by a Hutu-dominated regime. Rwanda’s main ethnic groups are the Hutu, who make up a majority of…

The Conversation

This design exhibition in Rwanda connects the past, present, and future with fresh, youthful energy

Interlude Rwanda is a biennial exhibition staged at three historical sites across the country, displaying over a hundred works commissioned from ten emerging and established local artists, designers, and architects

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Rwanda’s military support to other countries is part of a strategy to boost its reputation

Rwanda is one of Africa’s geographically smallest countries. However, its foreign policy, whose hallmark is military diplomacy, has attracted international attention.

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Rwanda marks 30 years since France's contested mission to stem 1994 genocide

This Saturday marks a milestone for Rwanda: 30 years since Operation Turquoise, the controversial French-led military intervention launched in the final weeks of the 1994 genocide. The anniversary revives questions over France's role in the events of 1994, and the diplomatic tensions between Paris and Kigali that have marked the…

Radio France Internationale

Rwanda is transforming and growing — but at what cost?

Rwanda's post-genocide transformation has been remarkable, but uneven. And it prompts many questions, including: what type of leader is needed to help a country grow and heal?

WEKU

US and DRC's partners call on Rwanda to punish forces over attack

The United States has called on Rwanda to punish forces behind an attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Both Kinshasa and the US accuse Kigali of meddling in DRC's affairs.

Radio France Internationale

Rwanda admits it can’t guarantee how many asylum seekers it will take in from UK

About 52,000 people are eligible under the scheme, but a government spokesperson said Kigali would accept ‘thousands’

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US Blames Rwanda For Deadly Attack On Displaced Camp In DR Congo

The United States has accused Rwanda of involvement in a deadly attack on a camp for displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a claim dismissed as "absurd" by Kigali on Saturday.

International Business Times

Rwandan opposition leader voices doubts Kigali will stick to UK asylum deal

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza says her banning shows Rwandan government does not adhere to international law

The Guardian - UK

Interviews, a history lesson and football: what awaits people sent to Rwanda by UK?

Authorities in Kigali say ‘we are ready’ to accommodate refugees as Rishi Sunak’s plan moves closer

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda Ready To Receive Migrants From UK

Rwanda prepares to welcome UK migrants at Hope Hostel in Kigali, addressing Channel crossings. Deportation flights to start in July, emphasizing safe and l...

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Rwanda's Hope Hostel earmarked to house migrants deported from UK

In tonight's show: Eye on Africa tours the Hope Hostel in Kigali. It's one of the lodgings prepared by Rwanda to take in migrants deported from Britain, the first of whom could arrive in a few months' time under a controversial policy. Also, black market money traders are rounded up…

France 24

'Progressive' Rwanda is safe for gay migrants, UK minister Michael Tomlinson insists

The claim comes after Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell said ‘Kigali is arguably safer than London’

Evening Standard

‘Forced’ move: Rwandans grapple with own fears over UK asylum seeker plan

Amid high unemployment and a housing crisis, many in Rwanda are apprehensive about the $272m migrant deal with the UK.

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Where Rwanda’s genocide perpetrators and survivors live side by side

A man killed his friend’s husband because he was Tutsi. Now the two live together in a ‘reconciliation village’.

The Hindu

Qutub Minar illuminates in remembrance of Rwanda Genocide of 1994

The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in remembrance of the 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 8,00,000 people in 1994

Dynamite News

Qutub Minar in Delhi illuminates in colors of Rwandan national flag

The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag on Sunday in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in remembrance of the 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 800,000 people in 1994. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Bill Clinton and other leaders join Rwandans in marking 30 years since their genocide

Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country.

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Al Jazeera

A week of mourning in Rwanda to commemorate 30 years of 1994 genocide

President Paul Kagame leads rites in Kigali as the African nation marks one of the bloodiest massacres of 20th century.

Al Jazeera

Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on – how did it happen?

Local media, in particular, were crucial in aiding the mass killings while world media ignored or underplayed them.

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Rwanda Marks 30 Years Since Genocide, Progress Amid Challenges

Rwanda prepares to mark 30 years since genocide, with global leaders attending solemn commemorations. Efforts towards reconciliation and challenges in dipl...

France 24

1994 genocide in Rwanda: Macron admits France could have stopped massacres

In tonight's edition: As Kigali gears up to mark a painful anniversary, France's president acknowledges that his country could have stopped the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but lacked the will to do so. Also, the former South African parliamentary speaker is arrested after being charged with corruption. Staying in South…

France 24

Special programme: Rwanda's cultural renaissance (1/3)

In this special programme from Kigali, Eve Jackson meets the artists rewriting Rwanda's future. Arts24 shows you just how much "the country of a thousand hills", with its population of 14 million, has transformed in the past 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsis.

The Guardian - UK

James Cleverly spent £165,000 on flight to Rwanda to sign deportation deal

Home secretary chartered a private jet to make the one-day round trip to Kigali in December

Evening Standard

Minister defends plan to pay thousands for migrants to go to Rwanda voluntarily

Labour says ministers are admitting defeat on their controversial deportation plan

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