Claudine Gasarabwe

Attorney-At-Law, Kigali 🇷🇼❤️ 🏛 ⚽️

[Richard Gisagara @RichardGisagara]

La Cour de Cassation a rejeté le pourvoi de Philippe Hategekimana Manier alias Biguma.

Il est désormais définitivement condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité, devenant ainsi la 4e personne à être condamnée définitivement en France pour le génocide commis contre les Tutsi.

Pensées émues pour ses victimes de Nyanza, Ntyazo, Muyira, Isar Songa et ailleurs

[Global Statistics Wire @stats_wire]

AFRICA’S MOST VISA-OPEN COUNTRIES (2025)

Which country is easy to travel to in Africa?

1. 🇷🇼 Rwanda - 1.000
2. 🇬🇲 The Gambia - 1.000
3. 🇰🇪 Kenya - 0.962
4. 🇧🇯 Benin - 0.906
5. 🇬🇭 Ghana - 0.868
6. 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde - 0.864
6. 🇲🇿 Mozambique - 0.842
8. 🇲🇺 Mauritius - 0.826
9. 🇧🇮 Burundi - 0.823
10.🇸🇱 Sierra Leone - 0.811
11.🇪🇷 Eritrea - 0.808
12.🇩🇯 Djibouti - 0.800
13.🇰🇲 Comoros - 0.800
14.🇸🇳 Senegal - 0.792
15.🇲🇬 Madagascar - 0.785
16.🇪🇹 Ethiopia - 0.732
17.🇹🇿 Tanzania - 0.709
18.🇳🇦 Namibia - 0.653
19.🇿🇲 Zambia - 0.483
20.🇲🇼 Malawi - 0.472
21.🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - 0.472

Score 1.000 = Visa-free for ALL 53 African nations

Source: Africa Visa Openness Index 2025 | AfDB + African Union

[Jessica Mwiza @jessicamwiza]

My latest ✍🏽 📄 "The greatest propaganda campaign of the modern era, the campaign to present colonial domination and epistemic injustice as natural, even moral, is being eroded by its architects as we watch, but somehow this is not enough to jolt those who claim to oppose it into action."
https://t.co/hDRH1EozUQ

[Africa Today Media Group @africatodayMG]

Kigali (Rwanda) Named Safest Capital City in Africa.

Global security indices ranked Kigali as Africa’s safest capital for the fifth consecutive year.

Low crime rates and advanced smart policing technologies contribute to the city’s reputation as a secure destination for investment and living.

[Dr. Jean Damascene BIZIMANA @DrDamascene]

Extase d’une mémoire aboutie, gratitude aux acteurs qui l'ont conduite et intime pensée aux absents:
- Contemplant ce beau monument symbolique érigé en plein Paris sur les bords de la Seine en mémoire des victimes du génocide commis contre les Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994 ;
- Observant les regards, méditations et recueillements d'un public que j'y ai vu ce 2 juin 2026, plein à la fois d’émotion et douleur d’un passé lourd, mais attentionné par l’acquis et la signification de ce monument historique ;
- Méditant le témoignage saisissant de la survivante Jeanne Uwimbabazi abandonnée en avril 1994 par des Casques Bleus de l’ONU à l’Ecole Technique Officielle de Kicukiro à Kigali, et qui survécut grâce aux soldats de l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise ;
- Fortifié par les paroles de réconfort, espoir et vérité des deux Chefs d’Etat, Français et Rwandais, qui ont à jamais marqué l'histoire, et que toute l’audience a accueillies avec joie et espoir d’un avenir meilleur;
J'ai été saisi d'extase. C'était émouvant, fort.
- Mes pensées profondes ont bien évidemment porté sur plus d’un million de Tutsi victimes de ce terrible génocide, que les parisiens et leurs visiteurs méditeront pour les siècles des siècles, en plein Paris;
- Mes pensées se sont ensuite dirigées vers le souvenir de tant d’hommes et femmes, connus et inconnus, qui ont agi depuis 1994 pour que l’histoire du génocide commis contre les Tutsi soit sauvegardée en France;
- J’ai particulièrement pensé aux absents disparus les années passées qui ont précédemment fait un travail dur de lutte pour la mémoire, la vérité et la justice, et qui auraient été heureux d’être là, aux côtés de leurs amis et connaissances. De l’au-delà où ils se trouvent, ils sont sûrement fiers de leurs compagnons de route qui n’ont pas démérité.
- Puisse ces regrettés d'heureuse mémoire, dont je connais la bonté et l’engagement, puissent également faire partie de ce projet abouti : Jean-Paul Goûteux, François-Xavier Verschave, Sharon Courtoux, Gilles Duroux, Jean Carbonare, Géraud De La Pradelle, Marie Odile Godard, José Kagabo, Théogène Karabayinga, pour ne citer qu’eux. Leur absence est une présence perpétuelle.

[Candy Basomingera @CandyBaso]

“Behind every champion stands an industry.

Behind every medal stands a system.

Behind every trophy stands decades of planning.

This is perhaps the most important lesson for Rwanda.”

@NgarambeRwego https://t.co/AI6MyYCQnO

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

Une photo qui résume à elle seule l'engagement diplomatique du Rwanda avec la France: la francophonie, le sport, la jeunesse, la culture, la justice, la mémoire, la réconciliation et la coopération.

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[Claudine Gasarabwe @CGasarabwe]

@onduhungirehe @Ley_Rwagasana 🇷🇼😍 “Equipe de choc”!!! 🙌🏽

[Le Monde De Mongi 🇷🇼🇸🇳 @mongi_writes]

A few years ago, 🇫🇷 recognised its “overwhelming” share of responsibility in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. That step had seemed almost impossible just a decade prior.

Too often people in our ✋🏿✋🏾✋🏽 parts of the world are denied even the mere possibility of healing, through a refusal to facilitate its most essential steps: there can be no good treatment to any ailment without an accurate diagnosis of what problem occurred, how it occurred, and why it occurred. It’s likely that if suffering is observed but purposefully unacknowledged or diminished, it is because its onlooker considers this suffering justifiable and therefore defendable. A scary thought. But when you have power (whether in relative influence or full military authority), the crimes you defend are crimes you enable. Silence altogether, as some wanted of President Macron, is a coward’s favourite tool of complicity.

President Macron chose otherwise, and offered recognition instead. It was an important pivot, but the machinery dedicated to protecting the genocidal order and rehabilitating genocidal ideology was [and is] very much alive. It fought to prove its existence, across traditional and social media, after the publishing of the Duclert report and Macron’s speech in Kigali, where the French President asked for forgiveness from survivors.
Publicly, and one would suspect behind closed doors as well, there were those who condemned President Macron for this truthful step or worse yet, this humane approach. Some, of banal racism, simply suggested that Africans were unworthy of the decency of a deserved apology. But there is no comfortable middle ground when it comes to dehumanisation and genocide, particularly when the power to prevent catastrophe sits within your grasp. Faced with the persecution of a people, fence-sitting is, in fact, taking a stance. You either oppose the killers and those who prepare the ground for them, or you help clear their path so they can march ahead, machette in hand, abetted.

As President @EmmanuelMacron inaugurates the Quai d’Orsay Memorial to the Genocide against the Tutsi, the hope remains that those who have chosen principle and sincerity regarding their involvement in our past, are succeeded by people with the integrity to adopt the same posture toward the future, because the warning signs did NOT disappear after July 1994.

There are STILL people in this region being persecuted for reasons disturbingly similar to those that drove the attempted annihilation of every Tutsi in Rwanda in 94. There are STILL political entrepreneurs in the region invested in scapegoating entire populations for problems they did not create, to justify their murder and erasure, to distract populations as to real problems. Lacking the capacity or legitimacy required to inspire genuine allegiance grounded in shared ambition, trust or love, some “leaders” wager instead on manufacturing hatred of others into partisan loyalty - a common purpose to rally frustrated populations behind them.

The political toolkit is the same across the world. There are still those working to make exclusion, persecution, and violence more palatable to the public by wrapping hatred in the language of security, patriotism, or justice for one’s “stolen wealth”.

And so there is still responsibility to be taken. The responsibility to recognise the signs and refuse their trajectory BEFORE the graves have to be dug and the memorials have to be built….The responsibility to ensure that future generations are not left inaugurating monuments to tragedies that today’s leaders had every opportunity to prevent.

Despite the silver linings, there’s a soft ache here. I think we want to go to France for the gorgeous terrasses, cheese, croissants, and much more. Not in mourning of innocent people whose loss the country had “overwhelming responsibility” in facilitating.

This is a step. But it’s just a step. There’s a long way ahead with many, manyyy more.

[franceinfo @franceinfo]

🔴 La Caméra d'or, qui récompense le meilleur premier film dans toutes les sections du festival, revient à la réalisatrice rwandaise Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo pour "Ben'imana".

#Cannes2026

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

5️⃣ Big 5
🌴 Incredible views
❤️ Unforgettable stories

Looking back at eight years of our partnership with Visit Rwanda 🤝

[Chantal M. 🇷🇼🇨🇦 @Mwiza123]

Wow #VisitRwanda takes over London. Wenye uwivu wajinyonge ntako twabigenza

[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

#Rwanda has ranked first in #Africa for rule of law for the fourth consecutive year, a milestone widely attributed to the visionary leadership of President #Kagame.

The World Justice Project of Rule of Law Index evaluates how well countries uphold justice, accountability, and good governance. It looks at key areas such as control of corruption, protection of fundamental rights, security, and the effectiveness and fairness of civil and criminal justice systems.

#RwandaWorks

@GitifuW @sheilakamuzinzi @ruhumuza

[Alice Nkulikiyinka @AliceNkulikiyi1]

Strong move for #Rwanda’s private sector 🚀🇷🇼

Applauding the Rwanda Social Security Board @RSSB_Rwanda for launching the SME Growth Fund. A decisive step to unlock patient capital for entrepreneurs.

This initiative promises to back SMEs, strengthen governance, drive job creation & private sector development.

The future of growth is local. 🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼

[World Bank Rwanda @WB_Rwanda]

#Rwanda recognized by the @WorldBankGroup as a top performer on the Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+).

With a score of 157, well above regional averages, the country continues to invest in people to drive inclusive growth.

[David Wa Kayigamba @DavidWaKayigmba]

Rwanda 🇷🇼to the world 🌍
@LeoDiCaprio @netflix @visitrwanda_now

[Visit Rwanda @visitrwanda_now]

Now on @netflix

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this documentary captures rare and intimate moments from the lives of Rwanda’s mountain gorillas in @VolcanoesPark.

#VisitRwanda

[Nuru @NuruFreddy]

What was meant to destroy us became the reason we stand stronger. 🇷🇼

Kwibuka twiyubaka.
#kwibuka32

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

.@ChampionsLeague's semifinals;

Four (4) teams qualified;

Three (3) #VisitRwanda teams (@PSG_inside, @Arsenal and @Atleti) and one (1) team in partnership with Rwanda for football development (@FCBayernEN);

Quite exceptional!

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[Fabrice Rugumire @FabRugumire]

Big moment for both partners 🇷🇼

Congratulations to Paris Saint-Germain and Atlético Madrid on reaching the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. This is excellence on the biggest stage.

Proud to see Visit Rwanda associated with clubs that embody ambition, resilience, and top-level performance. The journey continues , all the best for the next step. 💪🏾