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Screenshot from African Stream video report / credit: African Stream

Genocide Orphans Evicted As U.K.-Rwanda Asylum Treaty Goes Into Effect

African Stream December 23, 2022 African Stream

Digital Pan-African publisher African Stream has produced an exclusive video report on Rwandans who became orphans during the 1994 genocide. Now, they are in limbo because of U.K.-Rwanda asylum policy.

Fighters in the DRC / credit: MONUSCO / Clara Padovan

For Peace in the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda Must Be Brought to Justice, Says Activist

Peoples Dispatch October 12, 2022 Peoples Dispatch

Last month, Uganda paid the first installment ($65 million) of $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following an order from the International Court of Justice. This is for crimes Uganda committed during its occupation of the Congo in the 1990s. People's Dispatch interviewed Kambale Musavuli.

On left: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. On right: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Background: National Unity Platform presidential candidate Bobi Wine / photo illustration: Toward Freedom

‘West Wants to Change Regimes for Itself’: Africans Strategize In Washington Against Western-Backed Leaders

Julie Varughese August 15, 2022 Julie Varughese

A regional conference of the National Unity Platform, a political party in Uganda, brought together members of the country’s diaspora from the New York City and Washington metro areas to strategize on how to tackle U.S. meddling that props up leaders. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSCA) Force Commander commends readiness of Rwandan peacekeepers in Bangui in the Central African Republic on September 7 / credit: Rwanda Defense Force/Flickr

Rwanda’s Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil

Vijay Prashad September 16, 2021 Vijay Prashad

Why did Rwanda intervene in Mozambique in July 2021 to defend, essentially, two major energy companies? The answer lies in a very peculiar set of events that took place in the months before the troops left Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.

Lake and volcano in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda / credit: Wikipedia/Neil Palmer

Rwanda’s Economic Success Keeps Western Scrutiny About Human Rights Abuses at Bay

Charles Wachira July 19, 2021 Charles Wachira

Rwanda’s economic and social accomplishments—while impressive—mask the underbelly of one of the world’s cruelest states. But Western powers remain silent on human-rights abuses as they reap profits.

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