Rwanda marks July 4 as Liberation Day. It is a day of earnest celebration, of memory, of national rebirth. It commemorates the day the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)—an armed wing of the Rwandan ...

Rwanda's incumbent president and presidential candidate for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Paul Kagame prepares to cast his ballot during the presidential election at the SOS Kinyinya polling ...

This long history has left a grim record: assassinated kings, exiled monarchs, overthrown presidents, and ruling parties that ...

Rwandans will on Sunday mark 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart their country, as neighbours turned on each other in one ...

The killing spree, which began on April 7, 1994, lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July of the year, and saw some 800,000 people dead, largely ...

In Rwanda’s recent general elections, held on 15 July, incumbent President Paul Kagame and his ruling party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), were largely re-elected as Head of State and to the ...

The killing spree, which lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July 1994, claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis, but also moderate Hutus.

Rwanda has begun 100 days of commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias.

People dance and chant songs in support of the RPF and the incumbent President of Rwanda Paul Kagame following the release of provisional electoral results, at a market in Kigali, July 16, 2024. [AFP] ...