Rwanda is the hidden gem in East Africa

LOUISE HEALY

“Crouch down and don’t move a muscle,” the guide said with steady unease as the silverback charged towards us, beating his mighty fists against his chest.

Squatting down in the thick vegetation of the Karisimbi forest in northwest Rwanda with nowhere to run and absolutely nowhere to hide I began to question why I had come here, and paid to come here at that.

Padiri yigishije ko jenoside yari ngombwa, ikaba umugisha wakomeje ukwemera

Ubushize, kuwa 16 Gicurasi 2011 nanditse kubijyanye n’uburyo hari abapadiri bagiye bagira inama Kiliziya ariko ntizifate. Reba; Kiliziya yaharaniye umubano mwiza na leta zateguye jenoside, itahira icyocyere cy’umubano uhuma amaso

Mu gihe hari abapadiri nka Mbonyintege na Mungwarareba bandikaga bemeza ko hari ibyo Kiliziya itakoze kandi hakaba n’ibindi ikwiye gukosora, hari abapadiri nka Joseph Ngomanzungu na Kagabo Vincent batabibona nkabo. Abo bapadiri, kuri bo nta cyiza Kiliziya itakoze.

Strong allegation but no evidence, says Rwanda’s Foreign Minister

By Magnus Mazimpaka

In lieu of recent allegations that the Rwandan government is targeting certain Rwandan nationals living in the United Kingdom, Magnus Mazimpaka, spoke with Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo to assess the accuracy and origins of the sensitive reports:

Abarimo ‘Intwari’ bazagaba igitero bakoresheje induru n’amagi mabisi

Igihe kirafasha mu isesengura ry’aho ibintu bigana. Hari ibitoroha kubera kwibeshya ku bantu ariko igihe kikabitunganya. Uratinda ukabona byinshi.

Rwanda’s unusual way: In Kigali the unique is commonplace

By Joseph Were–May 27 2011

Unlike most international airports, the departure lounge at Kigali International Airport is one large hall the size of a standard lawn tennis court with a section hewn off for the VIP.

Sylvain’s story: A former child soldiers on the road to a new life in Rwanda

By Katrin Piazza

KIGALI, Rwanda, 27 May 2011 – At the Lake Muhazi Centre, an hour’s drive from the Rwandan capital, 30 adolescent boys have come together for a three-month course that offers counselling, education, recreational activities and vocational training.

Letters from Africa: A test of faith

By Dau Jok and Zack Rosen–May 27, 2011

Editor’s Note: In this space, Penn teammates Dau Jok and Zack Rosen will provide a series of blog updates on their trip to Africa and Dau’s work to start up the Dut Jok Youth Foundation to help his native Sudan. For more on the tragic, yet inspiring reasons, behind Dau’s mission, read Dana O’Neil’s story here. Also make sure to check out previous entries in Dau and Zack’s blog journal. 

Rwanda and prejudices towards Africa

By Andrew M. Mwenda– May 27, 2011

Without placing allegations of human rights abuses in context, it is easy to call Obama or Cameron delusional despots.

Last week, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, while on twitter, got into a heated exchange with a British journalist, one Ian Birrell.

Rwanda officials would have to be really foolish to organise hyped UK murder plot

By Frederick Golooba-Mutebi–May 29 2011

As the attention of East Africans was firmly fixed on Uganda’s perennially fractious politics and the latest battle of wills between President Yoweri Museveni and his tough-as-nails nemesis, Dr Kiiza Besigye, Britain’s Metropolitan police kicked up a storm that has engulfed the Government of Rwanda and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office over the past week or so.

Are Colleges and Universities in North America Unwittingly Providing a Platform to a Tutsi Genocide Revisionist?

Since 2004 in the United States and in Canada, Paul Rusesabagina, the man upon whom Don Cheadle’s character in Hotel Rwanda is based, has been celebrated as the Oskar Schindler of the Tutsi genocide.