As Rwanda commemorates its independence, a historian and a political analyst argue that the independence granted on July 1, 1962, was partial and served colonial interests rather than truly liberating ...

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Like Congo, its bigger neighbour, Rwanda was a Belgian colony, until 1962, the year of independence. Rwanda had been a German colony since 1885, but the Belgians drove them out in 1916 during the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has ...

The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks and intends to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich ...

Jeddah, July 1, 2024, SPA -- His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, has sent a cable of congratulations to President Paul Kagame of the ...

May 5 (UPI) --Rwanda and the Trump administration are in talks to have the central African nation accepted deportees from the United States. Rwanda's foreign minister Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe ...

Both nations declared their independence from Belgium in the 1960s. The United States established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, and in 1962 with Rwanda.

Under Rwanda’s Hutu leader and later first post-independence president Grégoire Kayibanda, Belgium began favouring Hutus. The community got increased education opportunities.