Karega ka Karigata is the most recent known Rwandan warrior to have received Gucana Uruti, one of the most prestigious ...

Rwanda is often discussed together with Burundi and eastern DR Congo as if all three share the same history and the same problems. This regional shorthand is misleading. While these societies were ...

As Rwanda prepares for the 32nd commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in April, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Olivier Nduhungirehe has condemned the persistent ...

A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards of glass splatter film-maker Gualtiero Jacopetti’s face, slicing a vein behind his ear. As ...

Rwanda’s military dominance in the Great Lakes Region deters countries from sending troops to help stabilise eastern DRC.

African leaders made a collective decision not to contest colonial borders. Since 1960, Studwell counts five interstate wars and 38 civil wars. “Most of Africa was frozen as an atomised, pre-modern ...

Somaliland’s case brings the dilemma back to the surface. This is a territory that has governed itself — largely peacefully and with relative institutional coherence — for more than three decades.

LACONIA, N.H. — Three dozen 4- and 5-year-olds trooped out onto the stage of the ornate, century-old Colonial Theatre of ...

Various regions in southern Africa share a common trajectory: improvement in the first two decades after the 1990s, followed ...

Slow Poison is Prof Mamdani’s a “man-on-the-street” effort to reconcile the legacies of Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni—a ...

Who could have expected that news of the end of the world would be broadcast not from the UN General Assembly or a parliament ...