Rwanda

Congo, M23 rebels agree to framework pact backed by US and Qatar

It was the latest document signed in recent months as part of efforts, backed by the US and Qatar, to end decades of fighting in Congo, which has been an enduring threat to regional stability.

Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi's high representative Sumbu Sita Mambu and head of the M23 rebel group delegation Benjamin Mbonimpa sign a framework agreement for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in eastern Congo, during a ceremony in Doha, Qatar, November 15, 2025.
Relatives assist a distressed victim of the genocide at a mass-grave site in Kigali

Police arrest Rwandan genocide leader on Long Island for immigration fraud

 Sasha Chanoff, right, founder and CEO of RefugePoint, reviews a case with a staff worker and a refugee client in Kenya enrolled in the organization’s Nairobi-based Urban Refugee Protection Program.

As winds shift against immigrants, refugee resettlement advocate Sasha Chanoff steps up

Medical workers in protective suits treat patients suffering with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rome, Italy

New travel warning issued following Marburg outbreak


30 years since Rwanda’s genocide, and reflections on October 7's atrocities - opinion

The Rwandan genocide, unique in its horrific scale and speed, resulted in the loss of between 800,000 to one million lives, in just 100 days.

 THE WRITER spends time with some Rwandan friends at the ‘Kwita Izina’ ceremony in September 2022. Rwanda’s recovery illustrated the nation’s remarkable transformation through unity and a profound connection to nature, the writer says.

President Herzog lands in Rwanda for diplomatic talks

President Herzog arrives in Rwanda as first high-ranking Israeli in Africa since October 7, discussing the hostage crisis and marking the 30th anniversary of the genocide.

 President Isaac Herzog lands in Rwanda. April 7, 2024.

Jordan's King Abdullah: Israel's 'brutal' war creates generation of Gaza orphans

While visiting Rwanda, Jordan's King Abdullah compared the Rwandan genocide to the conflict in Gaza.

 Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during his visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, in this handout picture released on January 8, 2024.

Inmates forced to survive by eating each other in Rwanda's Gitarama prison

It was later repurposed as a prison, initially designed for around 400 inmates. Shockingly, this facility now crams up to 8,000 prisoners within.


Editor's Notes: Don't 'All Lives Matter' the Holocaust

The Holocaust was an event without parallel in human history and the Nazi drive to murder Jews was singular and obsessive.

 A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch at Yad Vashem at the state ceremony marking the beginning of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance, on Monday night

‘We are a force for good’: Sylvan Adams brings cycling to Rwandan children

Adams recently returned from a visit to Rwanda, where he introduced the team’s Racing for Change initiative.

 THE GREAT Chris Froome inaugurates the pump track in front of hundreds of happy children

Sustaining endangered species through tourism: Rwanda and Dead Sea

From the Dead Sea to Rwanda’s mountain gorillas: An existential model for endangered treasures.

 KWITA IZINA, one of the largest conservation events in Africa.

A journey to Rwanda, land of a thousand hills

Rwanda is a small, landlocked country located in the heart of Africa, bordering Burundi, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Fog covers the land of a thousand hills.

France's highest court upholds decision to drop Rwanda investigation

The assassination of politician Juvenal Habyarimana sparked 100 days of violence in Rwanda, mainly by Hutus against minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, in which some 800,000 people were slaughtered.

General view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

Prosecutor seeks life sentence for convicted 'Hotel Rwanda' hero

Rusesabagina was convicted on eight terrorism charges related to the activities of an organization opposed to President Paul Kagame.

 Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, walks in handcuffs to a courtroom in Kigali, Rwanda February 17, 2021.

Four ambassadors present credentials to President Isaac Herzog

The ambassadors from Switzerland, the EU, Rwanda and Italy presented their credentials to President Isaac Herzog.

 President Isaac Herzog.