https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/rwanda/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:42:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/rwanda/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-west-has-helped-paul-kagame-to-pillage-the-congo/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-west-has-helped-paul-kagame-to-pillage-the-congo/#respond Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:42:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289813 Bloomberg News describes Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda for the last quarter century, as “the West’s favorite autocrat.” According to Bill Clinton, Kagame is a “brilliant man,” one of the “greatest leaders of our time,” no less. Former British prime minister Tony Blair likewise hails Kagame as “a visionary leader.” Blair’s Institute for Global Change has worked closely with Rwanda, and Blair has personally argued against any [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-west-has-helped-paul-kagame-to-pillage-the-congo/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-quiet-violence-of-peace-deals/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-quiet-violence-of-peace-deals/#respond Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:25:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286113 Peace deals are often announced with handshakes, photo ops, smiles, and celebratory headlines. They are moments of spectacle that are framed as victories of diplomacy and stability. While some peace deals ought to be celebrated, behind the press conferences and applause, we must also ask: What is actually being exchanged in the name of peace? Whose [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-quiet-violence-of-peace-deals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peace-for-minerals-drc-activists-refuse-american-blackmail/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peace-for-minerals-drc-activists-refuse-american-blackmail/#respond Sun, 11 May 2025 10:25:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283595 The negotiation process toward a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda – mediated by the United States – is still shrouded in secrecy.  On Friday, May 2, exactly one week after Kinshasa and Kigali had signed a “declaration of principles” in Washington, each capital was supposed to deliver the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peace-for-minerals-drc-activists-refuse-american-blackmail/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/rwandan-genocide-survivor-rwanda-behaves-like-israel-in-the-dr-congo/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/rwandan-genocide-survivor-rwanda-behaves-like-israel-in-the-dr-congo/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1280266 Claude Gatebuke, Rwandan genocide survivor, co-author of Survivors Uncensored, and Executive Director of the African Great Lakes Action Network (AGLAN), joins the show to discuss Rwanda’s backing of the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He explains how Rwanda and Uganda are waging a brutal proxy war—using mass murder, rape, and displacement—to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/rwandan-genocide-survivor-rwanda-behaves-like-israel-in-the-dr-congo/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/war-of-plunder-how-rwanda-has-fueled-war-in-drc-as-western-countries-look-away/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/war-of-plunder-how-rwanda-has-fueled-war-in-drc-as-western-countries-look-away/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:44:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1279037 The long-simmering conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo escalated this week when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels captured at least part of the eastern city of Goma. The fighting between the militia and Congolese forces has killed at least 17 with over 370 people injured, and hospitals are overwhelmed. U.N. chief António Guterres has called [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/war-of-plunder-how-rwanda-has-fueled-war-in-drc-as-western-countries-look-away/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-israel-of-africa-how-rwanda-became-the-wests-proxy-in-congos-brutal-war/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-israel-of-africa-how-rwanda-became-the-wests-proxy-in-congos-brutal-war/#respond Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:05:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1278922 ]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-israel-of-africa-how-rwanda-became-the-wests-proxy-in-congos-brutal-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-rwanda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-rwanda/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:13:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274635 On the global stage, Rwanda is the poster child for African development, celebrated for its post-genocide recovery and lauded as a beacon of economic success. The seemingly stable nation has won the admiration of many international actors despite a grim reality: a systematic pattern of human rights abuses, suppression of dissent, and exploitation of neighboring [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-rwanda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/black-and-white-thinking-about-rwanda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/black-and-white-thinking-about-rwanda/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:03:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273113 Rwandans used to make a habit of recording radio programmes on cassette tapes. It is in this way that many programmes of the infamous propaganda stations RTLM and Radio Rwanda were documented. The stories they broadcast sowed suspicion, fear and hatred against the Tutsi minority, thus their instrumental role in the 1994 genocide.[1] Those radio [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/black-and-white-thinking-about-rwanda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rwanda-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-election/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rwanda-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-election/#respond Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:45:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270526 At the 15 July presidential election, sitting president Paul Kagame secured a 99.18 per cent victory. The participation rate was a whopping 99.86 per cent. Although voting is not compulsory, non-participation is considered ‘anti-patriotic’, and local authorities make sure everyone casts their vote. These figures are reminiscent of pre-1990 single party-era polls, dubbed ‘risk-free elections’ by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rwanda-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-election/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/eyewitness-dr-congo-the-war-over-the-cobalt-in-your-iphone-destroys-millions-of-lives/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/eyewitness-dr-congo-the-war-over-the-cobalt-in-your-iphone-destroys-millions-of-lives/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1268042 The death toll continues to climb in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as fighting escalates between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda. The decades-long conflict has killed approximately six million people and displaced millions more. Akilimali Chomachoma, a journalist covering the Democratic Republic of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/eyewitness-dr-congo-the-war-over-the-cobalt-in-your-iphone-destroys-millions-of-lives/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-indifference-to-rwandas-atrocities-is-costing-congolese-lives/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-indifference-to-rwandas-atrocities-is-costing-congolese-lives/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:09:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265378 In April 2012, a group of largely Tutsi Congolese military officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mutinied and crossed the border into Rwanda, where they announced the creation of a new rebel group, the M23. The movement went on to launch attacks into eastern Congo, motivated by a litany of grievances, from alleged betrayal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-indifference-to-rwandas-atrocities-is-costing-congolese-lives/feed/ 0