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Filip Reyntjens and his colonial hangover

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...
In the last article in this serialised narrative, we saw how, from September 10, 1993, Rwanda entered an institutional vacuum that the forces opposed to the Arusha Accords took advantage of to render ...
The Genocide Against the Tutsi in 1994 did not begin with machetes; it began with the moral degeneration. In April 1994, as Rwanda descended into its darkest night, the family of the man whose death ...
What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different?
A New York beekeeper was arrested on charges of concealing his past role as an alleged leader in the 1994 Rwandan genocide on his applications for a green card and U.S. citizenship, federal ...
Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, Pascal ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The legacy of failed presidential assassination attempts in the U.S. should temper expectations that this past weekend was a world-historical event. Theodore ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing headwinds it hasn’t experienced in more than 30 years. Since 2020, the region has been buffeted by coups, conflicts, and crises, with nine military takeovers in the past ...
African heads of state & gov't who have died in plane crashes include Samora Machel, Ahmed Ould Bouceif, Juvénal Habyarimana, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Muhammadu Maccido, Barthélemy Boganda and Joël ...
The crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and several other top officials on Sunday was the latest high-profile deadly helicopter accident in recent years. It's impossible to say with ...