Returning to Rwanda after 16 years »
In the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, an estimated 2 million Hutus fled across the border to DR Congo. Nearly 16 years later, some of these Rwandans are coming home under a reconciliation and repatriation programme sponsored by the United Nations and the Rwanda government. Sorious Samura reports on the returnees for Al Jazeers’a [...]
Rwanda changed my life, but not as much as Uganda »
Go online and read about Rwanda for more than 5 minutes and I guarantee you’ll learn three things very, very quickly – Rwanda has been “completely transformed”, “plastic bags are banned” and “the streets are clean”. These observations are factually accurate and many Rwandans are rightly proud of them. However, there’s one other, perhaps less [...]
The worst article on Rwanda and DR Congo you will read all year »
It wasn’t just me who read David Smith’s “Letter from Africa” in The Guardian open mouthed this morning. Fortunately for us, my friend Christopher Vourlias takes the 1,000 word corpse into the operating theatre and dissects it into oblivion. The article is an attempt at a “colour” piece about a trip from Kigali to Goma [...]
