#VisitRwanda concludes multi-year partnerships with both the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Rams. It’s the first time any NBA or NFL team has struck a sponsorship deal with an African tourism brand.
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Rwanda is proud to have hosted this historic UCI Road World Championships. I congratulate all the riders who competed across our capital city for their remarkable achievements and resilience. My sincere appreciation to my friend, David Lappartient @DLappartient, the UCI team, our partners, the security organs who kept the race route secure and the people of Rwanda whose energy and support made #Kigali2025 truly unforgettable.
“Perhaps it is my affection for the youth…perhaps it is simply that I love ‘love’. But the wellness of the Rwandan family unit – our youth’s cocoon – be it in health as in personal fulfillment, will always be my driving purpose. I may have voiced this before but repeat it proudly: we must aim for Rwandan families to be whole so that Rwanda, a country healing scars both physical and of the soul, can also be whole.”
With these words, First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame reflects on the essence of family as the foundation of a thriving nation.
Read the full op-ed “A Couple’s First Song: A Lifelong Dance” here: https://t.co/FVBaS3vYcW
In Kenya, a woman steps out to demand justice and the state responds by tearing her body apart.
Not with words. Not with rubber bullets.
But with rape.
A weapon of war disguised as law enforcement.
A system so rotten, it fears a woman with a placard more than a man with a gun.
You talk about patriotism, yet you stash stolen billions abroad.
You wear flag pins, but your hearts beat for foreign banks.
You quote the Bible in public, and plunder in private.
Kwibuka ~ a collective act of memory:
In a place where people were dehumanized and brutally murdered, Kwibuka restores what was denied: dignity, worth, belonging.
The Genocide against the Tutsi took more than one million precious lives—deliberately, systematically—to erase a people. That we remember them, and that we have survivors, is a defeat of the genocide project.
Kwibuka offers the space to name the wound, the courage to face the truth and the resolve to do things differently.
Kwibuka should not be Rwanda’s story alone, but also Africa’s mirror. The division and violence that tore Rwanda apart have echoes across our continent.
All that pain, loss, fear and horror—talk about it. Name it correctly. Record it. Own it.
We have to do this not to remain in sorrow but to heal, restore, and live well.
This is what it means: to remember, unite and renew.
On 11 April 1994, the Belgian contingent of UNAMIR withdrew from ETO Kicukiro, abandoning thousands of Tutsi to
slaughter by the killers surrounding them.
The Rwandan government soldiers and interahamwe then forcibly marched the Tutsi to Nyanza in Kicukiro, where they were systematically massacred using firearms, grenades, and machetes.
About 400 of them were children. #Kwibuka31
Speech by Dr Jean-Damascene Bizimana, Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement at the #Kwibuka31 commemoration ceremony.
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President Kagame joined over 2000 Rwandan youth for the “Walk to Remember” from Gasabo District Headquarters to BK Arena, at the start of the 100-day commemoration period #Kwibuka31. President Kagame also participated in the candle lighting ceremony, which kicked off the Night Vigil, featuring testimony and musical performances in honour of the victims and survivors the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.
Today we commemorate the 31st anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and begin the official commemoration week.
Remember - Unite - Renew
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What Belgium regrets is their inability to bring Rwanda into submission, despite countless threats and sanctions.
This is not the result of a disagreement, it is the consequences of decades of protecting genocidaires, promoting genocide deniers to political position, constant diplomatic sabotage, all in the continuous quest to return Rwanda to 30 years ago.
It is not dialogue you seek, it is obedience. The kind you are getting from DRC, whose people you claim to speak for, while exploiting them for the last century.
In the words of President Kagame:
We ask you: “Who are you? Who put you in charge of us? With the limited means we have, we will stand up to you. After all these years we have spent fighting to build our country, we want to be Rwandans, we do not want to be Belgians.”