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Rwanda’s National Counter Terrorism Committee and the Financial Intelligence Centre have placed Pretoria-based Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa on a list of 25 alleged criminals for financing and inciting terrorism.

Rwanda sanctions fugitives in SA

The designated 25 individuals have allegedly orchestrated attacks on Rwandan soil, inciting Rwandans to commit and finance acts of terrorism

The writer’s wife Janet and their child Penny pay their respects at the Rwanda Genocide memorial, Kigali, this month.

Rwanda’s reckoning: A father’s reflections on memory, pain and the architecture of hope

A father’s thoughts as he visits the memorial to the 1994 genocide with his family

Human remains from victims of the Rwanda genocide as seen at the Nyamata Church Genocide Memorial on April 06, 2024 in Nyamata, Rwanda. Over 45,000 genocide victims are buried at the UNESCO World Heritage Site. During a roughly 100-day period in 1994, hundreds of thousands of members of the Tutsi ethnic group were killed by Hutu militias, during the the country’s civil war. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

How Rwanda’s annual genocide commemoration fans the flame of ethnicity

In 2014, the genocide was officially renamed from the Rwandan genocide to ‘the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi’

Visitors look at the flags of Nazi Germany, inside the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Scarcity and the threat of another ‘final solution’

Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for…

Ukiliho Kayishema Fulgence, one of the last fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, sits in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on May 26, 2023, two days after being arrested following 22 years on the run. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP)

Rwandan genocide fugitive appears in Cape Town court

Fulgence, who was locally known as Donatien Nibashumba, faces five charges including fraud and contravening the immigration and refugee acts

Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, UN investigators said on Thursday. (United Nations)

One of last four Rwanda genocide fugitives arrested in South Africa

Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, United Nations investigators said on…

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. (Larissa Lee Beck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

South Africa not co-operating in arrest of genocide suspect — UN court

Since 2010, the tribunal has handled outstanding and ongoing cases from the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Demonising’s danger: The belongings of the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide form part of the Nyamata Genocide Memorial in Kigali. (Jacques Nkinzingabo/AFP)

World has failed to learn from Rwanda’s genocide

And yet, too often we are confronted with the shameful reality that the world has not learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

On this terrible anniversary, we stand in solidarity with the victims, their families and the survivors of the genocide in their sorrow. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)

Rwanda: 25 years after genocide, politics of demonisation as dangerous as ever

In the 25 years since the genocide, the world has witnessed countless crimes fuelled by the same politics of demonisation and tactics of exclusion

We can’t reflect on the history of the 1994 genocide without considering the critical role the media played in both inciting and prolonging the violence. (Noor Khamis/Reuters)

Debating media’s role in driving Rwanda’s genocide

Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence

On this terrible anniversary, we stand in solidarity with the victims, their families and the survivors of the genocide in their sorrow. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)

Swede jailed for life over Rwanda genocide

Theodore Tabaro, 49, was sentenced by the Stockholm district court for ‘genocide’ after he was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and kidnappings

Guiding light: A crowd watches the passing of the Kwibuka Flame of Remembrance in Kigali

The intolerable loss of dignity

Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible

The community of Mbyo

‘My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we are friends’

Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in ‘reconciliation villages’.

A farmer in Rwanda.

Rwanda’s essential oils offer big profits from little land

Essential oils are increasingly in demand in richer countries for use in cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals.

In controlling the narrative about the genocide in Rwanda

Why US universities should cut links with Rwanda

The US should stop backing authoritarian regimes such as Rwanda’s through institutional support that helps propagate tyranny.

Almost the entire task force became infected, including ten cabinet ministers and First Vice President Riek Machar.

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar ‘under house arrest’ in Pretoria, says source

A well-connected regional political consultant said Machar was being kept ‘basically under house arrest’ near Pretoria with his movements restricted.

Privileged: Cyclist Jeanne d’Arc Girubuntu

Rwanda: Raised in the shadow of death

Twenty-one years after the genocide, Rwanda is rapidly rebuilding its national identity – but ethnicity is still a factor.

Rwanda genocide court closes after 20 years and $2bn

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda closes up shop amid criticism, but at least with some justice served.

Life: Pelagie Nyirambarushimana and her child Francine Niyonshuti at the Central University Hospital of Kigali. Rwanda has made drastic improvements in reducing child mortality.

Comment: Good health without the fear of ruin

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.

Supporters outside the Brakpan Magistrate’s Court.

Appeals judge affirms ruling on Rwanda genocide crimes

The UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda upheld life sentences for two former heads of the ex-ruling party for genocide crimes committed in 1994.