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Le sam., avr. 15 2023 à 9:06 a.m., 'Zac Biampa' via Rwanda Forum
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Triple i
" Twarabamenye"! Quand vous vous retrouvez dans l'impasse, vous vous rabattez sur votre souffre-douleur qu'est le Pays des Bashingantahe. Il suffit d'alerter vos échos dans des institutions impérialistes comme ici La Banque .Mondiale, FMI et autres BAD...pour lancer des balivernes. Et le tour est joué !




Le samedi 15 avril 2023 à 12:01:24 UTC+1, 'Jerome Ndiho' via Rwanda Forum <rwandaforum@googlegroups.com> a écrit :


https://www.burundidaily.net/post/corruption-sur-un-projet-finance-par-la-banque-mondiale-un-relent-de-corruption-avec-300-millions-de-francs-burundais-dans-un-marche-gagne-par-un-proche-du-regime-cndd-fdd

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Re: [Rwanda Forum] Ceci exique-t-il cela?

Triple i
" Twarabamenye"! Quand vous vous retrouvez dans l'impasse, vous vous rabattez sur votre souffre-douleur qu'est le Pays des Bashingantahe. Il suffit d'alerter vos échos dans des institutions impérialistes comme ici La Banque .Mondiale, FMI et autres BAD...pour lancer des balivernes. Et le tour est joué !




Le samedi 15 avril 2023 à 12:01:24 UTC+1, 'Jerome Ndiho' via Rwanda Forum <rwandaforum@googlegroups.com> a écrit :


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[Rwanda Forum] Ceci exique-t-il cela?

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Re : [Rwanda Forum] Re: Paul Kagame Is a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West’s Best Friends - The New York Times

PK agomba kuyobora uRwanda until abapawa muhinduye imyumvire...


Le jeu., avr. 13 2023 à 10:33 p.m., 'Nzi Nink' via Rwanda Forum
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@Jerome:

Rahira ko uyu mwaka usiga ingoma ya RPF amahoro?

Amakuru ava mu ahantu hizewe avuga ko RPF yahawe itariki ntarengwa ya le 24 Septembre 2023 ikaba yasimbuje Kaaga!

FYI...

Après 23 ans passés à la tête de l'Etat, le président rwandais Paul Kagame a exprimé son désir de se retirer et de céder le pouvoir à un nouveau dirigeant.


https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/afrique/rwanda-paul-kagame-envisage-de-c%C3%A9der-le-pouvoir-%C3%A0-un-nouveau-dirigeant/2864296


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On Apr 11, 2023, at 11:32 PM, 'Jerome Ndiho' via Rwanda Forum <rwandaforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Don't care! Next year his tenure in office will be renewed for an adfitionsl 5 years!!


Le mar., avr. 11 2023 à 7:27 p.m., 'Nzi Nink' via Rwanda Forum
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Opinion | Paul Kagame Is a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends - The New York Times

He's a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends

A photograph of Paul Kagame standing in a crowded room. He is wearing a suit and looking straight ahead.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.Pool photo by Ludovic Marin

By Anjan Sundaram

Mr. Sundaram is a journalist and the author of "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime."

His grip on power is nearly unassailable. Since becoming president over two decades ago, he has extended constitutional term limits, shut down the free press and clamped down on dissent. Reporters have been driven into exile, even killed; opposition figures have been imprisoned or found dead. His country has been reduced to tyranny.

But this dictator isn't a pariah, like Vladimir Putin of Russia or Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Instead, he's one of the West's best and most reliable friends: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. Since coming to power in 1994, Mr. Kagame has won his way into the West's good graces. He's been invited to speak — on human rights, no less — at universities such as Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and praised by prominent political leaders including Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and the former U.N. general secretary Ban Ki-moon.

It doesn't end there. Mr. Kagame's Western friends include FIFA, which held its annual congress at a shiny sports complex in Kigali in March, and the N.B.A., whose African Basketball League plays in Rwanda. Europe's largest carmaker, Volkswagen, runs an assembly plant in Rwanda, and major international organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum are close partners. Western donors finance a whopping 70 percent of Rwanda's national budget.

But perhaps Mr. Kagame's greatest endorsement is a deal with the British government to receive asylum seekers deported from Britain. This controversial bargain, which may contravene international law, has cemented Rwanda's reputation as a steadfast partner of Western countries. Far from the authoritarian holdout it is, Mr. Kagame's Rwanda is now hailed as a haven for people fleeing dictatorship.

Mr. Kagame owes much of his success to his skilled political rhetoric, an art form Rwandans call "ubwenge." In news conferences where Rwandan journalists, aware of the risks faced by less pliant colleagues, throw him softball questions, Mr. Kagame shines. Often, his target is the West. He consistently voices an anti-imperialist message about how Europe is "violating people's rights" and berates the West's "superiority complex."

This posture makes him a leading avatar of a new type of postcolonial ruler. Other populist nationalist presidents such as Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Narendra Modi of India also rally their populations behind similar sentiments, elevating themselves as world leaders no longer beholden to the West. Often at the heart of their defiant speeches are references to old crimes — massacres, genocides and expropriations committed by European empires that date back as far as the 16th century.

Such appeals work because Western leaders still offer only grudging "regrets" for such atrocities and rarely apologize, partly out of fear that their nations will have to cough up huge sums in reparations. This allows the grievances to live on. Many in former colonies still feel those past humiliations as viscerally present, manifest today in institutions that are dominated by Western interests, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, or in international trade and aid negotiations. Postcolonial leaders such as Mr. Kagame find much popularity in their insistence that the West should atone for its history, however improbable that might be.

The price of avoiding apologies, though, is that Western leaders find their moral authority diminished. Instead, they engage in placatory behaviors — offering praise and partnership, rather than condemnation. Perhaps nowhere is this dynamic clearer than in Rwanda, where Mr. Kagame's leverage with Western leaders is particularly strong because the country's grievances are recent. He is very adept at guilt-tripping the West, and his jabs hit home hard.

Rwanda's 1994 genocide — during which nearly one million Rwandans, many of them ethnic Tutsis, were killed — was perpetrated under the noses of United Nations peacekeepers, who diligently filed reports on the killings while seemingly impotent to prevent them. Although Mr. Kagame's former ambassador to the United States and other political allies have accused him of "sparking" Rwanda's genocide and doing little to prevent it, he has cast himself as the hero who ended it.

In the event of criticism, Mr. Kagame's tried-and-tested tactic is to rebut any Western leader who has the temerity to sermonize to poorer nations about democracy, human rights and the rule of law. His rhetoric resonates in a world desperate for African success stories, not least in the West. Back in 2011, the journalist Tristan McConnell described how Western support for Mr. Kagame was driven by "a genuinely felt desire to fight the image of a basket-case continent." The year after, Time magazine called Mr. Kagame "the embodiment of a new Africa."

Behind the lionization lies a darker truth. Since taking power in 1994 as commander in chief of the Rwandan military, and later as president, Mr. Kagame has all but rigged elections, taking almost 99 percent of the vote in 2017. Many of his opponents have disappeared, in some cases found murdered, in one case virtually beheaded. The self-styled hero who supposedly ended the Rwandan genocide was also in command of an army that the U.N. has alleged was responsible for killing tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Hutus and for potential acts of "genocide" after twice invading the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Yet no matter the historical record, Mr. Kagame creates an alternate reality in which the West is to blame for his country's ills and he is its brave champion. This anti-imperialist narrative trumps reports of dissidents and journalists being harassed, imprisoned or forced into exile. It doesn't help that accurate information about the country is hard to come by: Mr. Kagame bans critical foreign reporters, ensuring that the international media often repeats government propaganda.

The hunger for postcolonial leaders who stand up to the West is perfectly understandable, rooted in the ways that imperialism continues to structure relations between former colonies and former colonial powers. Justice for colonial-era crimes would be welcome to many in the world, too, even if it is unlikely to come anytime soon. At the very least, Western leaders — beginning in Britain — should do something simple and stop rewarding authoritarians like Mr. Kagame.



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[Rwanda Forum] Lawyer petitions court over RIB's ‘unconstitutional’ searches - The New Times

Lawyer petitions court over RIB's 'unconstitutional' searches - The New Times

Lawyer petitions court over RIB's 'unconstitutional' searches

Rwanda Investigation Bureau headquarters in Kimihurura, Gasabo District. A lawyer has petitioned the Supreme Court to examine the constitutionality of RIB's powers to conduct investigative searches in people's homes and other premises without a court warrant. Photo: File.

Kigali-based lawyer Edward Murangwa has petitioned the Supreme Court to examine the constitutionality of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB)'s powers to conduct investigative searches in people's homes and other premises without a court warrant.

ALSO READ: Rwanda Investigation Bureau challenged on professionalism, humility

Article 10 of the law establishing RIB grants investigators the power to search a person or premises without a warrant if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a criminal act is being committed or the premises contain an object used in committing a crime.

A search warrant is an order in writing commanding a law enforcement officer to search a specified person or premises. In some countries such a document is issued by a judge or magistrate.

ALSO READ: RIB to cede some powers to police under new legislation

Murangwa's petition is mainly based on the claim that investigative searches infringe on human rights and thus, the judiciary – the government organ assigned with human rights oversight – should approve the searches first.

According to the petition, investigative searches without a judicial warrant violate the 43rd article of the Constitution, which reads, "The Judiciary is the guardian of human rights and freedoms. This duty is exercised in accordance with this Constitution and other laws."

Murangwa argued that RIB is part of the Executive branch of the Government, not the Judiciary, and if investigators issue search warrants for themselves, they violate article 61 of the Constitution, which provided that the Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary are separate and independent from each other but are all complementary.

Murangwa also cited article 23 of the Constitution, which protects people's homes from infringement unless under circumstances determined by the law. It reads, "A person's home is inviolable. No search or entry into a home shall be carried out without the consent of the owner, except in circumstances and in accordance with procedures determined by the law. Confidentiality of correspondence and communication shall not be waived except in circumstances and in accordance with procedures determined by the law."

ALSO READ: RIB speaks out on parading suspects

Meanwhile, as part of the petition, Murangwa also prayed to court to order the police and RIB to stop parading suspects before the media and "forcing" them to talk to journalists.

The practice, he argues, contravenes article 29 of the Constitution, which provides that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty by a competent court.

He also asked court to order media houses or social media users who took pictures and videos of paraded suspects to delete them.

The Supreme Court set May 24 as the date when the petition will be heard.



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[Rwanda Forum] Re: Paul Kagame Is a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West’s Best Friends - The New York Times

@Jerome:

Rahira ko uyu mwaka usiga ingoma ya RPF amahoro?

Amakuru ava mu ahantu hizewe avuga ko RPF yahawe itariki ntarengwa ya le 24 Septembre 2023 ikaba yasimbuje Kaaga!

FYI...

Après 23 ans passés à la tête de l'Etat, le président rwandais Paul Kagame a exprimé son désir de se retirer et de céder le pouvoir à un nouveau dirigeant.


https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/afrique/rwanda-paul-kagame-envisage-de-c%C3%A9der-le-pouvoir-%C3%A0-un-nouveau-dirigeant/2864296


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On Apr 11, 2023, at 11:32 PM, 'Jerome Ndiho' via Rwanda Forum <rwandaforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Don't care! Next year his tenure in office will be renewed for an adfitionsl 5 years!!


Le mar., avr. 11 2023 à 7:27 p.m., 'Nzi Nink' via Rwanda Forum
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Opinion | Paul Kagame Is a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends - The New York Times

He's a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends

A photograph of Paul Kagame standing in a crowded room. He is wearing a suit and looking straight ahead.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.Pool photo by Ludovic Marin

By Anjan Sundaram

Mr. Sundaram is a journalist and the author of "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime."

His grip on power is nearly unassailable. Since becoming president over two decades ago, he has extended constitutional term limits, shut down the free press and clamped down on dissent. Reporters have been driven into exile, even killed; opposition figures have been imprisoned or found dead. His country has been reduced to tyranny.

But this dictator isn't a pariah, like Vladimir Putin of Russia or Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Instead, he's one of the West's best and most reliable friends: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. Since coming to power in 1994, Mr. Kagame has won his way into the West's good graces. He's been invited to speak — on human rights, no less — at universities such as Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and praised by prominent political leaders including Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and the former U.N. general secretary Ban Ki-moon.

It doesn't end there. Mr. Kagame's Western friends include FIFA, which held its annual congress at a shiny sports complex in Kigali in March, and the N.B.A., whose African Basketball League plays in Rwanda. Europe's largest carmaker, Volkswagen, runs an assembly plant in Rwanda, and major international organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum are close partners. Western donors finance a whopping 70 percent of Rwanda's national budget.

But perhaps Mr. Kagame's greatest endorsement is a deal with the British government to receive asylum seekers deported from Britain. This controversial bargain, which may contravene international law, has cemented Rwanda's reputation as a steadfast partner of Western countries. Far from the authoritarian holdout it is, Mr. Kagame's Rwanda is now hailed as a haven for people fleeing dictatorship.

Mr. Kagame owes much of his success to his skilled political rhetoric, an art form Rwandans call "ubwenge." In news conferences where Rwandan journalists, aware of the risks faced by less pliant colleagues, throw him softball questions, Mr. Kagame shines. Often, his target is the West. He consistently voices an anti-imperialist message about how Europe is "violating people's rights" and berates the West's "superiority complex."

This posture makes him a leading avatar of a new type of postcolonial ruler. Other populist nationalist presidents such as Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Narendra Modi of India also rally their populations behind similar sentiments, elevating themselves as world leaders no longer beholden to the West. Often at the heart of their defiant speeches are references to old crimes — massacres, genocides and expropriations committed by European empires that date back as far as the 16th century.

Such appeals work because Western leaders still offer only grudging "regrets" for such atrocities and rarely apologize, partly out of fear that their nations will have to cough up huge sums in reparations. This allows the grievances to live on. Many in former colonies still feel those past humiliations as viscerally present, manifest today in institutions that are dominated by Western interests, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, or in international trade and aid negotiations. Postcolonial leaders such as Mr. Kagame find much popularity in their insistence that the West should atone for its history, however improbable that might be.

The price of avoiding apologies, though, is that Western leaders find their moral authority diminished. Instead, they engage in placatory behaviors — offering praise and partnership, rather than condemnation. Perhaps nowhere is this dynamic clearer than in Rwanda, where Mr. Kagame's leverage with Western leaders is particularly strong because the country's grievances are recent. He is very adept at guilt-tripping the West, and his jabs hit home hard.

Rwanda's 1994 genocide — during which nearly one million Rwandans, many of them ethnic Tutsis, were killed — was perpetrated under the noses of United Nations peacekeepers, who diligently filed reports on the killings while seemingly impotent to prevent them. Although Mr. Kagame's former ambassador to the United States and other political allies have accused him of "sparking" Rwanda's genocide and doing little to prevent it, he has cast himself as the hero who ended it.

In the event of criticism, Mr. Kagame's tried-and-tested tactic is to rebut any Western leader who has the temerity to sermonize to poorer nations about democracy, human rights and the rule of law. His rhetoric resonates in a world desperate for African success stories, not least in the West. Back in 2011, the journalist Tristan McConnell described how Western support for Mr. Kagame was driven by "a genuinely felt desire to fight the image of a basket-case continent." The year after, Time magazine called Mr. Kagame "the embodiment of a new Africa."

Behind the lionization lies a darker truth. Since taking power in 1994 as commander in chief of the Rwandan military, and later as president, Mr. Kagame has all but rigged elections, taking almost 99 percent of the vote in 2017. Many of his opponents have disappeared, in some cases found murdered, in one case virtually beheaded. The self-styled hero who supposedly ended the Rwandan genocide was also in command of an army that the U.N. has alleged was responsible for killing tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Hutus and for potential acts of "genocide" after twice invading the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Yet no matter the historical record, Mr. Kagame creates an alternate reality in which the West is to blame for his country's ills and he is its brave champion. This anti-imperialist narrative trumps reports of dissidents and journalists being harassed, imprisoned or forced into exile. It doesn't help that accurate information about the country is hard to come by: Mr. Kagame bans critical foreign reporters, ensuring that the international media often repeats government propaganda.

The hunger for postcolonial leaders who stand up to the West is perfectly understandable, rooted in the ways that imperialism continues to structure relations between former colonies and former colonial powers. Justice for colonial-era crimes would be welcome to many in the world, too, even if it is unlikely to come anytime soon. At the very least, Western leaders — beginning in Britain — should do something simple and stop rewarding authoritarians like Mr. Kagame.



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[Rwanda Forum] Amerika yongeye gusonga Abanyarwanda yitwaje filimi yagize Rusesabagina igitangaza | IGIHE


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Amerika yongeye gusonga Abanyarwanda yitwaje filimi yagize Rusesabagina igitangaza

Ambasade ya Leta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika muri Lesotho yakoze Abanyarwanda mu nkovu, ivuga ko igiye kwerekana filimi yitwa "Hotel Rwanda" isingiza Paul Rusesabagina nk'intwari, iranarenga yanga kuvuga ko mu Rwanda ari Abatutsi bishwe muri Jenoside.

Filimi "Hotel Rwanda" yakinnye kuri Paul Rusesabagina nk'uwarokoye abantu 1268 muri Hôtel des Mille Collines. Ubutwari bwamwitiriwe buhabanye n'ukuri, bwatumye benshi bayoba batangira kumuhundagazaho ibihembo kugeza kuri 'Presidential Medal Award of Freedom', yahawe na Perezida George W. Bush wa Amerika mu Ugushyingo 2005.

Ubutumwa Ambasade ya Leta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika muri Lesotho yashyize kuri Twitter, buvuga ko ku wa Gatanu tariki 14 Mata saa Munani z'Amanywa, hazerekanwa iyi filimi "igaragaza ubutwari bwa Paul Rusesabagina mu kurokora impunzi".

Ni filimi igiye kwerekanwa nyuma y'igihe kitageze ku kwezi Rusesabagina afunguwe n'u Rwanda ku mbabazi za Perezida wa Repubulika nyuma y'uko ahamijwe ibyaha by'iterabwoba bishamikiye ku Mutwe w'Iterabwoba wa MRCD-FLN yashinze ndetse akaba yari awubereye umuyobozi.

Ni mu gihe kandi u Rwanda rumaze igihe runenga uburyo Amerika yinangiye mu gukoresha imvugo iboneye ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi. N'ubu mu itangazo rya Ambasade ya Lesotho, nta na hamwe havugwamo ko ibyabaye mu Rwanda ari Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, ahubwo bayise "Jenoside yo mu Rwanda".

Abanyarwanda bakoresha Twitter bibukije Ambasade ya Amerika muri Lesotho ko inkuru ivugwa muri Hotel Rwanda ari impimbano, idahuye n'ukuri ku buryo abantu bajya kuyisingiza.

Uwitwa Mugenzi Félix yagize ati " "Hotel Rwanda" ni filimi mpimbano. Paul Rusesabagina nta bantu 1.200 yarokoye. Ni filimi ya Hollywood. Ni nk'uko Sylvester Stalone atigeze arokora Abanyamerika muri Vietnam, Bruce Willis na we ntiyigeze arokora Isi ngo ntigwirwe n'ikibuye kinini [astéroïde]."

Mugenzi we witwa Fabrice Rugumire yagize ati "Ibi ni igisebo. Ntabwo mwari mukwiriye kubikora, hari filimi zivuga ukuri kw'ibyabaye zitari nk'iyi y'impimbano yuzuye ibinyoma."

Dieudonné Rusanga yasabye Ambasade ya Amerika muri Lesotho kwirinda kuyobya abantu.

Iyi filimi ibeshya ko Rusesabagina yabaye intwari akita ku mpunzi zari zahungiye muri Milles Collines. Ni mu gihe abari bayihungiyemo, nta bufasha na buke bahawe, ahubwo bose bibeshejeho, bakajya baniyishyurira ibikenewe byose mu gihe filimi ivuga ko Rusesabagina yabitayeho nta kiguzi.

Odette Nyiramirimo uri mu bahungiye muri Milles Collines, yigeze kubwira IGIHE ko mu cyumba kimwe bakibagamo ari abantu barenga 27.

Ati "Abafite amafaranga barishyuraga, abatayafite bagasinya, natwe ni ko twabigenje ntayo twari dufite, ahubwo nasanze nari mfite n'agasheki mu mufuka, nagasinyeho k'amadolari $400, bayankuyeho hariya muri BCR nyuma ya Jenoside, Hôtel des Mille Collines."

Abandi bahungiye muri Hôtel des Mille Collines barimo abakomeye nka Rubangura, Bernard Makuza (wabaye Perezida wa Sena), Makuza Bertin wari umunyenganda, Ambroise Murindangabo, Habiyakare wabaye Minisitiri n'abandi.

Ubwo muri Werurwe 2008 hamurikwaga Igitabo 'Hotel Rwanda – or the Tutsi Genocide as seen by Hollywood', cyanditswe na Dr Alfred Ndahiro afatanyije Privat Rutazibwa; Bernard Makuza wari Minisitiri w'Intebe yashimangiye ko nta muntu Rusesabagina yarokoye ku bwe.

Ni igitabo kivuga neza amateka y'abarokokeye muri Hôtel des Mille Collines, bitandukanye na Filimi 'Hotel Rwanda' yashyizwemo umunyu ikagira Rusesabagina intwari ku bikorwa bitigeze bibaho.

Makuza ati "Twese twishyuye amafaranga ngo tugume muri iyi hotel kandi nta muntu yagiye hanze kurokora. Abantu barazaga bakaguma hano kuko bishyuye amafaranga."

Icyo gihe yanibukije ko ubwo yahuraga na Rusesabagina muri iyo hoteli, ati "yantunze urutoki avuga ko nka njye wari umujyanama wa Agathe Uwilingiyimana ndi mu bantu bazanye ibibazo."

Makuza yabaye Umujyanama mu by'Amategeko wa Uwilingiyimana wari Minisitiri w'Intebe wabaye umwe mu bantu bishwe Jenoside igitangira.

Gasamagera Wellars wageze muri iyi hoteli iminsi ibiri mbere y'uko Rusesabagina ahakandagira, ubwo yari senateri mu 2011 ni umwe mu bashimangiye uko batswe amafaranga kugira ngo bahabwe icumbi.

Yagize ati "Nishyuye amafaranga y'u Rwanda ibihumbi 180 y'iminsi ine, ariko kuko nari mfite amafaranga macye nyuma y'ibyumweru bibiri bahise bankura muri icyo cyumba."

Join the Embassy & American Corner for a screening of 'Hotel Rwanda' on Fri, April 14th at 2pm. The movie tells Paul Rusesabagina's heroic story of saving 1,200 refugees during the Rwandan genocide. Let's promote peace and stand against hate. #NeverForget #HotelRwanda pic.twitter.com/YKqUGzI1S3

— U.S. Embassy Maseru (@USEmbassyMaseru) April 13, 2023



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