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Powerful Portraits Show Perpetrators and Victims of Rwandan Genocide Posing Together

2 May 2026 at 11:00

A man and woman sit side by side on a wooden bench indoors, holding hands. The woman wears a pink headscarf and patterned dress, while the man wears a green shirt and blue pants. Several piglets walk on the floor near them.

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days, between 800,000 and one million people were killed, mainly Tutsis but also Hutus. Perpetrators were neighbors, teachers, church leaders, even family members, who attacked face-to-face with machetes, clubs, and spears.

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Rwanda: Rwanda Considers Restricting Social Media Use for Children Under 16

29 April 2026 at 13:54
[New Times] The government is considering introducing a law that would restrict children under the age of 16 from using social media platforms, in an effort to strengthen child protection in the digital space.

Congo-Kinshasa: Joint Statement on the Fifth Joint Oversight Committee for the Peace Agreement Between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda

24 April 2026 at 12:07
[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Rwanda, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator), and the African Union Commission on the occasion of the fifth Joint Oversight Committee held this week in Washington, DC.
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