Closing the three-week-long campaign trail, Paul Kagame, the RPF-Inkotanyi Chairman and flagbearer in upcoming presidential elections, referred to Rwanda’s unity after the tragic history of ...

Rwandans are all set to celebrate the 30th Liberation Day, marking exactly three decades since the country as liberated from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The celebration will take place at ...

* In August 1993, Rwanda and the RPF signed a deal to end years of civil war, allowing for power-sharing and the return of refugees. Habyarimana was slow in implementing the agreement, ...

The biggest challenge that Kagame and the RPF will face in the next five years is living up to their own development agenda. They have promised Rwandans more prosperity, and with a generation born ...

On May 31, 2025, close to 9,000 people stood or sat beneath the open sky and tents at Cyasemakamba in Ngoma District, not in celebration but in solemn remembrance.

Rwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central Africa, is trying to recover from the ethnic strife that culminated in government-sponsored genocide in the mid-1990s. An estimated 800,000 ...

In the early 1990s the RPF went to war against the then Hutu-led regime in Rwanda, and in 1994 it marched on Kigali to end the genocide, which was sparked when a plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana ...

Rwanda's governing RPF party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, securing 76 per cent of the vote. The party of President Paul Kagame, which came to power after the genocide ...

WAR: * In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda. The RPF's success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to ...

There are more dissenting voices today in Rwanda than at the time when the RPF and its allies agreed on the country’s current model of democracy. These voices will continue to increase over time.

Former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, who has just been sentenced to 15 years in prison, is regarded by many as a symbol of reconciliation in the country. An ethnic Hutu, he was appointed to the ...

The stadium is regarded by many as the symbol of Rwanda's rebirth given the liberation story it embodies. ... "I fled to the stadium because I was assured that RPF army was there to protect us.