Unity Club

Forum where current and former Rwandan leaders and their spouses network and collaborate to address community issues.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame is in Geneva where will deliver a keynote address at the opening of the @AIforGood Global Summit 2026, and officially launch the AI for Good Global Commission, along with co-chair Marc @Benioff, CEO and Co-Founder of Salesforce, vice-chair Doreen Bogdan-Martin, @ITUSecGen, President @HallaTomas of Iceland and President @AlarKaris of Estonia. The Summit, co-convened by @ITU and Switzerland, is being held under the theme, “Unlocking AI’s potential to serve humanity.”

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

Ndi Umunyarwanda si ukwibaza gusa icyo Igihugu kigusaba gukora. Ni ukwibaza umusanzu wawe ku Gihugu bidasabye kukwibutsa.

Ntitukabe ba ntibindeba. Umurage ni ukuzirikana igihango kitugize Abanyarwanda no guharanira kugira aho twita iwacu. Igihugu ni ukukigendana ku mutima. Dufite agaciro n’ubuzima kuko dufite Igihugu. Nk'abayobozi b'ejo hazaza, ni ukuzirikana izi ndangagaciro tugahora twiteguye kwitaba Igihugu mu gihe kiduhamagaye.

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

Umuntu utazi Ikinyarwanda ajye amenya ko hari umukoro afite. Ibaze gutaha uvuye mu mahanga uje iwanyu ugasubirayo utavuganye na nyogokuru wawe! Ururimi rwacu ni rwiza, kurumenya, kurukoresha neza ni ingenzi cyane. Utaruzi ntabwo twamuciraho iteka ariko tumubwire tuti “Nyamuneka uko wiga indimi z’ahandi iga n’Ikinyarwanda. Kandi iminsi muzamara hano ndabizi ko muzataha muzi no guca imigani. – Uwacu Julienne.

#Indangamirwa16

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

“Indangamirwa yitandukanya n’ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside. Nusanga umuntu akora ibyaha, yiba, yangiza ibikorwa remezo n’ibindi bintu by’inyungu rusange ugaceceka ntabwo uzaba uri Indangamirwa. Inshingano mufite nk’Indangamirwa ni ukwimakaza indangagaciro na kirazira by’umuco nyarwanda kandi amasomo muzigira hano mukazayasangiza n’abandi batari hano.” – Uwacu Julienne.

#Indangamirwa16

[Rwanda Ministry of Defence @RwandaMoD]

Today, Brig Gen Patrick Karuretwa, the Defence Spokesperson and Director General of International Military Cooperation delivered a lecture to members of Itorero Indangamirwa Cohort 16 at the Gabiro Military Training Centre in Gatsibo District  focusing on strengthening Rwandan values, patriotism, leadership, and civic responsibility.

A 16th cohort of Itorero Indangamirwa is participating in a six-week training programme running from 1 July to 10 August at the Combat Training Centre Gabiro. It brings together young Rwandans living abroad, students enrolled in international schools operating in Rwanda, and outstanding graduates of the national service programme.https://t.co/x0DHxF6TFE
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Uyu munsi, Brig Gen Patrick Karuretwa, Umuvugizi w’Ingabo z’u Rwanda akaba n’Umuyobozi Mukuru ushinzwe Ubufatanye Mpuzamahanga mu bya Gisirikare, yatanze ikiganiro ku bitabiriye Itorero Indangamirwa Icyiciro cya 16, kibera mu Kigo cy’Amahugurwa cya Gisirikare cya Gabiro mu Karere ka Gatsibo. Ikiganiro cyibanze ku gushimangira indangagaciro z’Abanyarwanda, gukunda igihugu, ubuyobozi bwiza ndetse n’inshingano z’umuturage.

Icyiciro cya 16 cy’Itorero Indangamirwa kirimo kwitabira amahugurwa azamara ibyumweru bitandatu, azatangira ku ya 1 Nyakanga akageza ku ya 10 Kanama 2026, abera mu Kigo cy’Amahugurwa ya Gisirikare cya Gabiro. Aya mahugurwa ahurije hamwe urubyiruko rw’Abanyarwanda ruba mu mahanga, abanyeshuri biga mu mashuri mpuzamahanga akorera mu Rwanda, ndetse n’abarangije neza gahunda y’Igihugu y'urugerero.https://t.co/elUmQy5U0Q

[Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement @Unity_MemoryRw]

For the youth, understanding the values, history, and principles that have shaped modern Rwanda is an important foundation for working collectively toward the betterment of our homeland. Discussions on patriotism, leadership, and civic responsibility reinforce these ideals while encouraging participants to make meaningful contributions to Rwanda's development, wherever they may be.

#Indangamirwa16

[Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement @Unity_MemoryRw]

HAPPENING NOW:

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth and Arts, @NgaboBrave, and the Executive Secretary of Unity Club Intwararumuri, @JUwacu, are engaging participants of Itorero #Indangamirwa16 in a discussion on "Rwandan Culture and Values: Who We Are in the Face of Global Civilization and Ndi Umunyarwanda: The Essence of Rwandan Existence."

The session encourages participants to reflect on our national identity, unity, and the values that carry on to strengthen Rwanda while navigating a rapidly changing global landscape.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

“We went through a very dark chapter. But is that who we were meant to be? Is that what Rwandans wanted for themselves? Even if some people at the time wanted it that way, our responsibility today is to say: no. It is our history, but it is not who we should have been, and it is not who we should become.

That is what liberation means. It means that, as Rwandans, we freed ourselves.

You live for what you truly believe in, to the point where, if necessary, you are ready to die for it. That is where Rwanda stands today, whether some people like it or not.” President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

"If you look at what has happened in Eastern Congo, and everything we have gone through over the past four or five years, and you look at what we have left behind, there is evidence. There are facts that speak for themselves. In Eastern Congo, in Goma and elsewhere, the whole world came together against Rwanda. The whole world lined up against Rwanda: the FDLR and all the groups associated with it that have been mentioned, the Wazalendo, the Burundian forces, the FARDC, the South Africans, and many others. I would rather not spend time naming them all; there were so many.

When you look at the scale of what they had assembled there and what they were up against, it is clear that what they were trying to do was wage war against Rwanda, destabilize our country, and reshape it the way they wanted. In fact, they said so themselves. Ordinarily, if someone were to say these things without evidence, you might think they were simply trying to frighten people, to intimidate them.

To convince themselves that what they wanted was within reach and that they were going to achieve it, they even brought in mercenaries. You know that many of them passed through here. We gave free passage to our enemies, allowing them to leave a war they waged against us, a war that was never theirs to begin with. That alone tells you something. And it is also something for which our forces, together with others who stood with them, deserve recognition.

As for Rwanda, we will always be in a struggle for our very existence. Regardless of those who wish us harm, surrounding us from many sides, one thing remains true: we should and will always be a step ahead of them.

It is our right. It is our will. And our history has taught us that we have within ourselves the capacity to defend and protect ourselves whenever necessary. And that is exactly what we will continue to do." President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

"The composition of this panel, bringing together a former member of the ex-FAR, General (Rtd) Ibingira from the RPA/RPF, and a former member of the FDLR, and what they have shared, reflects just how complex, diverse, and layered our history is. It is from that history that we should draw the lessons to move our country forward, in the way we want and through our own efforts.

Let me say this: a great deal of what has been said on this panel has been valuable, and the discussions around it have only reinforced those lessons. One thing I wanted to pick up on is what Ibingira mentioned about those ungrateful people who insult and disparage others.

My advice is simple: do not waste your energy fighting those who insult you. Put your energy into building, building yourselves, and building your country, so that insults and the people who make them become insignificant and have no impact on you. Ignore them, and keep doing what you are supposed to do. That is what matters.

Your response should be your actions. Eventually, those who thrive on insults grow tired and stay hostages of history." President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

“Do we really accept that, as black people, we are somehow less human and inferior?

Accepting it is not simply a matter of saying “yes.” No one will ask you that question directly. You can even say “no,” but if you behave in the very ways that brought us to the kind of history we have lived through, then, in reality, you have accepted it. You have diminished yourself. And your actions become the evidence. The evidence is in doing the very things that others did, or in trying to justify them with explanations that should never be accepted.

There are no two ways about it. Good politics and a good ideology produce positive outcomes. Bad outcomes come from bad ideas. You do not need any other evidence.

Many of you are still young. You go abroad to study. Under normal circumstances, there is nothing they know that you cannot also learn. But you can come back having absorbed ideas without questions, ideas that take you away from who you are and try to turn you into something else, something that is not yours.

Whether those ideas are good or bad, there is one illness I do not think we will cure anytime soon: when, in your own mind, you stop being yourself and begin wishing you were somebody else. Why would you want to become someone else? To achieve what? In our own history, with everything we have been through, that is exactly how we lost our way.

And then you wait for someone from outside to tell you, “This is wrong,” and you immediately agree, without realizing that what is being condemned is you. It is about stripping you of your identity, and you willingly accepting it.” President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting.

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

Kuri uyu wa 27 Kamena 2026, Umuryango Unity Club Intwararumuri wateguye Inama Nyunguranabitekerezo ku Mateka ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994 n’Urugamba rwo kuyihagarika, iri kubera muri Intare Conference Arena.

Iyi nama yitabiriwe n’abagera ku 1,500 barimo abayobozi mu Nzego za Leta, abayobozi b’Amadini n’Amatorero, abahagarariye Urwego rw’Abikorera, Sosiyete Sivile ndetse n’Urubyiruko.

Intego y’iyi nama ni ugusangizanya amateka nyayo ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994, kugaragaza uruhare rw’Urugamba rwo kuyihagarika, no gukomeza kwimakaza Ubumwe, Ubudaheranwa n’indangagaciro zubaka Igihugu.

Kuri ubu, Nyakubahwa Perezida wa Repubulika y’u Rwanda, Paul Kagame, ari gutangiza ku mugaragaro iyi Nama Nyunguranabitekerezo.

Kurikira ijambo hano:https://t.co/SiOtmVxgfg

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This morning at Intare Arena, President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame join Unity Club members and other leaders for a dialogue on the history that led to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and the Campaign Against Genocide that led to Rwanda’s liberation. Follow live on https://t.co/9xu0ObzK4v

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

Mu buhamya bw’ Intwaza Uzamukunda Leocadia, yagaragaje ubugome Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi yakoranywe, ingengabitekerezo n'urwango ku Batutsi abantu bigishijwe, kugeza ubwo abo mu muryango we bagira uruhare rwo kumwicira abana.

Intwaza Uzamukunda Leocadia ni umwe mu babyeyi b'Intwaza batuye mu Rugo rw’Impinganzima ya Rusizi, Akomoka mu Karere ka Gakenke, Umurenge wa Muhondo.

Mbere ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994, yari afite umugabo n’abana 8.

Mu gihe cya Jenoside, yagizweho ingaruka zikomeye cyane, Abicanyi bishe umugabo we n’abana be 8.

Umugabo we amaze kwicwa, yahungishirije abana be kwa musaza we, yizeye ko ari bubahishe, ariko yarabamwirukananye avuga ko ari inzoka zitamugerera mu rugo. Babuze aho berekera, abicanyi barabamwaka barabica nawe baramukubita bamuvuna umugongo, abakobwa babanje kubasambanya mbere yo kubica.

Inkotanyi zaje kumutoragura, ameze nabi cyane, atazi aho ari, nta mwenda yambaye, ziramwambika, ziramugaburira, zimufasha kongera kubaho. Yashimiye Inkotanyi cyanee.

Ageze mu Rugo rw’Impinganzima, yari yarahungabanye ku buryo atabashaga no kuvuga. Ariko kubera ubwitange n’ubufasha yahawe, ubu ameze neza. Ararya, arambara, arasinzira, kandi afite imbaraga.

Yashimiye by’umwihariko Nyakubahwa Perezida wa Repubulika y’u Rwanda, Paul Kagame, agira ati:

“Dufatiye iry’iburyo Nyakubahwa Perezida wa Repubulika y’u Rwanda, Paul Kagame na Madamu".

#Kwibuka32
#TwibukeTwiyubaka

[Unity Club @UnityClubRw]

Kuri iki gicamunsi, ku wa 22 Kamena 2026, mu rugo rw’Impinganzima rwa Rusizi, Ababyeyi b'Intwaza 45 batuye muri uru rugo, bibutse ku nshuro ya 32 abari bagize imiryango yabo 314barimo abana n'abo bashakanye bishwe muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. Hibutswe kandi n'imiryango y'Ababyeyi b'Intwaza 15 nabo babaga muri uru rugo bitabye Imana.

Iki gikorwa kitabiriwe na Minisitiri w'Ubumwe bw'Abanyarwanda n'Inshingano Mboneragihugu, wari n'Umushyitsi Mukuru, Intwararumuri, Mayor w'Akarere ka Rusizi, Abahagarariye Inzego z'Umutekano, Abahagarariye Amadini n'Amatorero, Abaturanyi b'Impinganzima n'abandi batumirwa
#Kwibuka32
#TwibukeTwiyubaka

[Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement @Unity_MemoryRw]

"Mukomere rero, nubwo ubuzima mwanyuzemo bwo kwicirwa abana bose n'abo mwashakanye muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi bwabateye ibikomere ariko muzasaza neza, mwitabwaho. Mufite Igihugu kibakunda, kibazirikana, ntacyo muzakiburana. Ibyo bibatere ishema, bibatere ubwuzu."

Ubutumwa bwa Minisitiri @DrDamascene aganira n'Intwaza mu Mpinganzima ya Rusizi.

#Kwibuka32

[Rusizi District @RusiziDistrict]

Muri uyu mwanya Minisitiri w'Ubumwe bw'Abanyarwanda n'Inshingano Mboneragihugu @DrDamascene, abanyamuryango ba @UnityClubRw n'ubuyobozi bw'akarere bari kwifatanya n'Intwaza bari mu rugo rw'Impinganzima rwa #Rusizi #Kwibuka32 jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu 1994.