Rwanda marks July 4 as Liberation Day. It is a day of earnest celebration, of memory, of national rebirth. It commemorates the day the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)—an armed wing of the Rwandan ...

The actions of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) during and after the liberation war defy easy description. Exceptional? Remarkable? Outstanding? All these words come close but there was one act that ...

Rwandans and friends of Rwanda on Friday, July 4 mark the 31st anniversary of liberation (Kwibohora31), celebrating the achievements made since 1994 when the Genocide against the Tutsi was stopped by ...

More than 2,000 people in Nyagatare District on Wednesday, July 2, embarked on a 21-kilometre march from Nyagatare to Gikoba to honor the hardships endured by Rwanda's liberators over 31 years ago.

dominated Army and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the country's dominant political party. Throughout Rwanda—in every town and tiny village—the RPF is present, not unlike the Stasi in East ...

In the midsummer of 1994, the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA), which defeated the genocide, was the only authority in town. An effective military machine, the RPA had no experience in public ...

The invasion of Rwanda on October 1, 1990 by 4000 Ugandan uniform-bearing troops that would become the army of the Rwandan Patriotic Front was not only a breach of international law, it was the ...

These convictions are the most recent in a series of trials against former members or supporters of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), Rwanda’s ruling party since the 1994 genocide.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down the Hutu president’s plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that formally assigned blame for the ...

Rwanda's Ministry of Public Service and Labour declared a rare five-day public holiday from July 1 to July 6, 2025, to mark ...

The UN accused Rwanda’s government Friday of planning to force 800,000 Hutus out of squalid camps in the southwest. “UN military observers report that the RPA (Rwanda Patriotic Army) intends ...