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The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Rwandan state airline 'turns down' UK proposal to transport asylum seekers

The airline was worried about ‘potential damage to their brand’, according to reports

Evening Standard

Sunak welcomes Kagame to No 10 as Rwanda scheme hits fresh snags

Meeting to discuss PM’s key policy overshadowed by reports of lack of housing for deportees or airline to remove them from UK

The Guardian - UK

NGO files complaint over two French officers slain in Rwandan genocide

A French NGO has filed a complaint seeking a probe into the deaths of two French officers killed in the early days of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Radio France Internationale

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Rishi Sunak meets Rwanda President Paul Kagame amid migrant flat sale row

The Prime Minister met the Rwandan president on Tuesday amid reports that more than 100 properties earmarked for migrants deported from Britain tp the African nation have been sold.

Evening Standard

EU Eyes Offshoring Asylum-seekers, But Avoids UK-style Rwanda Plan

The European Union is open to the idea of sending asylum-seekers to outside countries, even if it is not willing to go quite as far as following Britain and its plans to fly irregular migrants to Rwanda.

International Business Times

Senegal’s democratic transition ‘sends positive message to other regimes’, says French FM Séjourné

At the end of a three-day tour that took him successively to Kenya, Rwanda and Ivory Coast, France's Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné spoke to FRANCE 24 and RFI about relations with Rwanda, reform of the CFA franc, France's military presence in Africa and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

France 24

Macron acknowledges France's 'failure to heed warnings' of looming massacres in Rwanda

As Rwandans began to commemorate the painful memories of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis, on Sunday French President Emmanuel Macron released a video message from France.

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Where Rwanda’s genocide perpetrators and survivors live side by side

A man killed his friend’s husband because he was Tutsi. Now the two live together in a ‘reconciliation village’.

Al Jazeera

Qutub Minar illuminates in remembrance of Rwanda Genocide of 1994

The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in remembrance of the 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 8,00,000 people in 1994

The Hindu

Qutub Minar in Delhi illuminates in colors of Rwandan national flag

The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag on Sunday in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in remembrance of the 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 800,000 people in 1994. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The world 'failed us all' says Rwanda's Kagame in genocide commemorations

Rwanda has paid solemn tribute to victims of the genocide, 30 years after ethnic Hutu extremists killed more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said the international community had "failed" his country by not intervening to prevent the massacre.

Radio France Internationale

Bill Clinton and other leaders join Rwandans in marking 30 years since their genocide

Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country.

WEKU

Rwanda marks 30 years since genocide that horrified the world

Rwanda has begun 100 days of commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias.

Radio France Internationale

A week of mourning in Rwanda to commemorate 30 years of 1994 genocide

President Paul Kagame leads rites in Kigali as the African nation marks one of the bloodiest massacres of 20th century.

Al Jazeera

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‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dial

Al Jazeera

Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on – how did it happen?

Local media, in particular, were crucial in aiding the mass killings while world media ignored or underplayed them.

France 24

Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: how historians reckon with the horror

Rwanda will begin commemorating 30 years on Sunday since the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 people dead, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic minority. For three decades, researchers have been investigating what happened, carefully detailing accounts from the witnesses and survivors of the last mass slaughter of the 20th…

International Business Times

Rwanda Commemorates 30 Years Since Genocide

Rwandans will on Sunday mark 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart their country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century.

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Rwanda Marks 30 Years Since Genocide, Progress Amid Challenges

Rwanda prepares to mark 30 years since genocide, with global leaders attending solemn commemorations. Efforts towards reconciliation and challenges in dipl...

The Guardian - UK

‘He killed my sister. Now I see his remorse’: the extraordinary stories of survivors of the Rwandan genocide who forgave their attackers

Half a million died in 100 days: neighbours attacked neighbours, children saw their families slaughtered. But 30 years on, many of the victims and perpetrators have forged reconciliations – even become friends. How did it happen?

Radio France Internationale

Thirty years after genocide, Rwanda's relations with France are slowly mending

France's relationship with Rwanda is gradually improving as French authorities acknowledge the country's responsibility in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which began 30 years ago this week. An estimated 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, died in the violence perpetrated by Hutus – a faction that France had a history of supporting.

France 24

Special programme: Rwanda's cultural renaissance (3/3)

In the third and final part of our Rwanda series, we head into Rwanda's breathtaking countryside to discover a unique artist's residence, created by cultural changemaker Cedric Mizero. He takes Eve Jackson and the arts24 crew on a trek through a eucalyptus forest for an immersive open-air theatre experience in…

WEKU

Violence in eastern Congo has displaced millions. Some end up at this camp

The Nkamira Transit Center is home to thousands of refugees who fled violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Radio France Internationale

Macron says France and allies 'could have stopped' the Rwandan genocide

President Emmanuel Macron believes France and its Western and African allies "could have stopped" Rwanda's 1994 genocide, but lacked the will to halt the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, the presidency has said.