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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

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
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

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
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’

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read