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Rwanda: How Did Colonial Laws Survive This Long?
New Times, 2 July 2019
The Catholic Church is the biggest landowner in Rwanda and occupies some of the prime spots all over the country, housing the majority of schools and monasteries. Even most prime… Read more »
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Rwanda: ANC Leader Calls for Stronger African Unity
New Times, 1 July 2019
The visiting Secretary General of South Africa's ruling party, African National Congress (ANC), has urged all African countries to strengthen their cooperation in fighting for… Read more »
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Rwanda: The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'
Guardian, 7 April 2019
6th April 1994 - For about a hundred days in 1994, about a million Rwandans were killed in what many historians have referred to as one of the most devastating tragedies in human… Read more »
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Uganda: Tracing Uganda-Rwanda Relations From Colonial Period
Monitor, 31 March 2019
American political scientist René Lemarchand summed up the situation in the Great Lakes region when he said: "Ethnic polarisation paves the way for political exclusion,… Read more »
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Rwanda: African Clerics Seek to Omit Colonial Legacy From Gospel
New Times, 14 September 2018
Over 500 religious leaders from across Africa are convening in Kigali for a three-day congress being held under the theme 'religious freedoms and building a tolerant continent of… Read more »
How Did Colonial Laws Survive This Long in Rwanda?
There are close to 1,000 colonial laws that are reportedly set to be repealed soon but it kind of blows the mind to wonder how they remained in the legal texts for this long. The Catholic Church's vast ownership of the most prime real estate in Kigali was not a result of smart investments but a golden gift embedded in the law enacted in 1943 and another ridiculous law that was enacted in 1930 forbade bars from selling alcoholic drinks on credit, according to The New Times.
