1/10/1990 – 1/10/2026 | On October 1st, we honour the courage and sacrifice of the Inkotanyi who took up the struggle for the rights, dignity and unity of Rwandans.
Thirty-six years later, their legacy remains relevant. In the Great Lakes region, communities continue to face hate speech, persecution and the denial of their fundamental rights and dignity.
As Rwandans, let's continue to uphold the values for which the Inkotanyi fought for: unity, dignity and patriotism.
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1/10/1990 – 1/10/2026 | Iya mbere Ukwakira, tuzirikana ubutwari n’ubwitange bw’Inkotanyi zatangije urugamba rwo guharanira uburenganzira, agaciro n’ubumwe bw’Abanyarwanda.
Nyuma y’imyaka 36, umurage wabo uracyafite akamaro. Mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari, hari abaturage bakibasirwa n’imvugo z’urwango, bagahohoterwa ndetse bakamburwa agaciro n'uburenganzira bwabo bw'ibanze.
Nk'abanyarwanda, dukomeze gusigasira indangagaciro Inkotanyi zaharaniye: ubumwe, agaciro no gukunda ighugu.
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Rwanda’s Nuclear Industrial Localization Roadmap has been released.
It outlines opportunities to strengthen local industrial participation in nuclear sector through skills development, innovation, technology transfer, and supply chain development.
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The AFC/M23, which is a Congolese movement, began withdrawing from the city of Uvira on 16 December 2025, and completed its withdrawal on 17 January 2026. The city was then retaken by the Congolese army (FARDC), its Burundian allies and its militias (FDLR and Wazalendo).
The US sanctions against the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) and four of its generals were taken on 2nd March 2026. Other US sanctions also followed.
It's therefore extremely difficult to justify the US sanctions against Rwanda by the refusal of the AFC/M23 to withdraw from Uvira.
Fundamental Question
Who watches the Human Rights watchers in Africa?
“human rights organisations across Europe, USA and Africa have performed an indispensable service in the world and in Africa. They have documented torture, unlawful deportations and detention, political repression, conflict-related abuses and attacks on civilians that might otherwise have remained hidden…
That contribution deserves recognition. It does not, however, exempt these organisations from scrutiny. On the contrary, the greater their influence, the stronger their obligation to demonstrate accuracy, fairness, contextual competence and accountability. In Africa, an Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch report is rarely just another civil-society publication.”
✍🏾 @MutabobaJoseph
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Something has been sitting uneasily with me lately... 💭
People hold a great many opinions about a great many things - the Rwandan diaspora and returnees chief among them. Some grievances are entirely legitimate, and there is real cause for anger in them. Yet I keep wondering why, of all things, the life-threatening situation at our borders never seems to trouble anyyyy of you.
The génocidaires - those who dashed Tutsi babies against church walls in 1994 and vowed that day to return and finish their work - remain a threat. They and the children raised in their image sit a little farther from our borders now, though THEY ARE HARDLY GONE: politically active from our own region to Europe and America.
The western media you consume overflow with anti-Tutsi, anti-Rwanda hatred. Genocide ideology, plainly stated. Rwandans are called cockroaches daily, by the thousands, and you sleep soundly all the same.
I hear a great deal, too, about "us versus the government, the government against us," and so on - from people who style themselves decolonial activists, which I find rather (sad and) comic. Have you heard of our (and many African countries) precolonial political values? To be heard in the ordinary affairs and the great decisions of your country, you were expected to PARTICIPATE in its continual making and remaking. To sit apart, watching and commenting from the sidelines, was regarded as a kind of cheating, an antisocial posture.
The idea of "I'll just observe and offer my critiques from over here 💅🏽" would have been unthinkable. And I know you have your excuses ready - "we don't know enough, we aren't educated on these matters, it's too difficult" - and I now decline to buy them, having heard for YEARS upon years the refrain: "oh, I could never do what you do." What I do amounts to fighting an ideology; a task far simpler than you pretend. Often it asks nothing more than that you SHARE something on your socials - and even that proves too much. And rarely do these confessions “I could never do what you do” carry any note of genuine fragility, vulnerability, or solidarity. More often the tone is UNMISTAKABLE: "I know a few of you mad pple are carrying this weight, so I've decided I needn't bother."
These past weeks have left me con-fli-cted, because the question of women's safety in Rwanda is a true emergency - and I won't have my words twisted into something I never said. But some of you have simply discovered the pleasure of criticizing everything and anything, absent depth, absent receipts, absent participation; behaving like spoiled children grown too fond of the “comforts” of Ottawa and ugly Brussels (ew spare me), forever measuring wealthy nations against our own.
And now aparently you fret aloud - "who will be president next, I'm so worried blablabbla - while doing what, precisely? Do you belong to any local chapter, diasporic or national, of a political party? To an NGO? Have you put questions to your local leaders, offered them analysis, proposals? To your ambassador? To the head or the board of your diaspora association? And when they organise their COUNTLESS events, debates and congress, are you ever in the room? Rarely (And don't @ me if you actually do all this I'm clearly NOT talking about you).
Anyways - now I need to vent and I will write something on stupidity, and I mean this in no eugenic sense. Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, serving as the very fuel evil requires to produce its effects, and it wears a great many faces: the refusal to educate oneself on certain matters, for instance the spectacle of people ignoring a whole global crisis while whining on X - "gneu gneu gneu, the government is covering something / hiding things from us" ... like really?...
So come for me; I don't mind. I'm seeing a great deal of stupidity lately. The thought of our President one day leaving office does not frighten me. What frightens me is the thought of SOME of you in charge one day, in civil society, or in politics. 😭
This seems to be what that person failed to articulate: that Ubuntu is not weakness, and that the pursuit of power must not be understood as an enterprise in the service of evil.
Africa must learn violence, strength, and power, otherwise it won’t have the ability to defend itself. It must learn how to reconcile those things with Ubuntu.
The seeds of division your forefathers planted in Africa, particularly in Rwanda died in July 1994. Seeds of unity and resilience grew after the destruction you caused, and there is nothing you can do about it.
We were in Kigali for a conference. I left my phone in the security check tray. Shortly after leaving the airport, I realized. Asked the taxi to turn back. Got to the airport, I was asked to identify my phone. I did. They asked me to unlock it. My face unlocked the phone. They gave me a small piece of paper to sign, and off I went.
The first officer I approached was the person who solved the entire problem.
Kigali remains a city close to my heart.
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.
People who refuse to evolve tend to fuse their shallow views to the system they adore. The problem is that the system itself is meant to evolve… or stagnate & die —it’s reality of things.
Every system has its mockingbirds and stenographers.
Those that take their echoes as KPI cannot look at themselves from outside—and so cannot evolve, only accelerate their decline.
To expect peace under @fatshi13 's leadership is to expect rain from a stone. It is such a political theater of the bizarre. President Tshisekedi and his lieutenants @SuminwaJudith@PatrickMuyaya@RDCongoMAE and others, are not stewards of peace. They are custodians of war and chaos.
Negotiating with Tshisekedi is akin to playing chess with an opponent who changes the rules with each move. @MofaQatar_EN@US_SrAdvisorAF
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