Au Rwanda, la présidentielle est fixée au 15 juillet. La commission électorale a annoncé vendredi soir la liste des candidats retenus. L’opposante Diane Rwigara, qui en 2017 déjà avait voulu candidater, n’a pas été retenue. Elle se déclare très déçue.…
A quarter-century has passed since the murder of 800,000 people were in the Rwandan genocide. President Kagame presents his country as a place of progress and equality, but that image starts to crack when you look behind the façade. On…
KIGALI (Reuters) – Diane Rwigara says she will not let more than a year in detention derail her campaign against President Paul Kagame, the rebel-turned-statesman lauded for transforming the small African nation’s economy but criticized for smothering dissent. The 37-year-old…
The expression-related charges against a would-be presidential candidate and her mother must be dropped, Amnesty International said ahead of the resumption of their trial on Wednesday. She is charged in relation to comments she made that were critical of the…
CNN — Rwanda’s fierce government critic Diane Rwigara and her mother Adeline Rwigara have been freed on bail, according to her family. Rwigara appeared in court Friday facing charges of incitement and fraud. Her mother, who was also in court, was…
Kigali, Rwanda — In the darkness of the Kigali night, Eric walks through a maze of cement homes crowned in corrugated metal. Using his phone he lights the road under his feet, a path of compressed red earth still drying out from…
Mouvement Yagakiza Karubanda – Itabaza ni mouvement ishingiye kukuri kandi itunyura abantu bagaharanira uburenganzira bwabo mu mahoro (People Salvation Movement- Itabaza is a platform aimed to educate Rwandans to stand up for their rights, to awaken their civic rights, to…