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When I first applied
@PSIASciencesPo
seemed so out of reach. I love that when future Rwandan/African students look up our security program, they will find a profile similar to theirs✨
Thank you Dean
@AranchaGlezLaya
for this unparalleled experience.
🔗:
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These 4 gentlemen, the only Rwandans at their school (Marist College), organized a
#Kwibuka28
Commemoration and paid a really moving tribute to the Victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
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Y’all, I have been rehearsing the word
“imbugankoranyambaga” in front of a mirror for 2 days straight 😁
I hope you will join us later this morning for a youth focused conversation on our role in shaping Rwanda’s future. 🫶🏾
On est ensemble!
#Umushyikirano2024
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I enjoyed every single moment of this. What an absolute honour to be part of
#Umushyikirano2024
🫶🏾
And y’all really came through with the live tweets & bringing this important conversation online.
Thank you for the great energy ✨💞
Y’all, I have been rehearsing the word
“imbugankoranyambaga” in front of a mirror for 2 days straight 😁
I hope you will join us later this morning for a youth focused conversation on our role in shaping Rwanda’s future. 🫶🏾
On est ensemble!
#Umushyikirano2024
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FPR Oyeeeeee 😂😂
Françaises, Français,
Bonne fête nationale à tous !
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The late and much beloved Aloisea Inyumba was an influential RPF cadre in exile and served as the commissioner of finance. We simply can’t talk about Women’s role in liberation without acknowledging her herculean efforts to finance and advance the struggle.
#thread
#Kwibohora26
There were many facets to the role of Women in the Liberation struggle. From the political cadres and soldiers to the caretakers (doctors, nurses, volunteers), etc.
Please share stories, anecdotes, little known facts you know, about their efforts in particular
#Kwibohora26
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Inkotanyi z'Amarere, Mfura z’u Rwanda, there are no unsung heroes.
Whether or not we know their names or fate, we enjoy the fruits of their struggle.
Everything that lives, everything that grows sings their triumph!
Thank you for giving us a country we are proud to claim! 🇷🇼
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~ How it’s ended ~
📍Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. 📚
Your girl bagged a Master’s degree top of her class
#SummaCumLaude
😊🎓
I’m so enchanted by the idea that you can have a dream, go after it and make it true. To me that’s some of the magic of life.
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Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique📍
7 extra kilos for your girl, and let me tell you something 😭😭
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A million people used to be here
A million people used to love here
A million people used to laugh here
A million people used to dream here
A million people used to be ours
How could we forget, when we have over
million reasons to remember?
#Kwibuka28
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Palma town, Mozambique📍
~17-12-23~
We are in mango season, so I came into town today hoping to find the perfect one.
Luckily I made a friend, Kassim. He’s 22, an artists and hoping to study ICT at university.
And he knew just the right place 🥭🫶🏾
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Quionga, Mozambique📍
~18-12-2023~
At a community meeting today, Afande Rwivanga saw a man with an infected foot & he went over to check on him. Police medics then treated & sent him on his way with antibiotics.
It’s quite moving for me to see human security in action. 🫶🏾
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“Wherever we’re called upon we often respond, in regard to the Protection of Civilians—it’s very important to us.” Brg.Gen Rwivanga
Happy 2024 to the Rwandan Security Forces esp those serving far from home.
Wherever you are, you make it safe for people to come home~🇷🇼🤝🏾🇺🇳🇲🇿🇨🇫~
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There are wounds that time does not heal. There is loss that becomes more acute with time.
There is trauma that time settles but does not numb.
Still, memory is steadfast.
#Dearsurvivor
we are so privileged to witness you. So grateful that you survived. Mukomere 🖤
#Kwibuka29
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"We succeeded in putting up this facility because of the pressure of opportunity," said President
@PaulKagame
during the inauguration of the Kigali Convention Centre 8 years ago.
Today, the pressure has become worserrr & and we love to see it!
#MeetinRwanda
📸:
#WD2023
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Rwanda has earned a reputation as a giant of peacekeeping for its efficiency, discipline & security ethos that prioritizes the vulnerable populations under its protection.
On Intl
#PeacekeepingDay
, join this conversation on🇷🇼's peace operations principles.
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📍Paris Voting Station
Someone’s Maman brought Mandazi for people in line 🥹 I love our community for real. 🥰🥰
#Ubuntu
#Rwandadecides
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Moments like these when the room gives H.E his flowers are priceless. I often wonder if he knows the regard with which this generation of Rwandans & Africans hold him. This is just a glimpse 🙌🏾
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Sibyo? 🥰🥰
Usibye kuba bombi Ari abahanga Kandi bakaba Ari imfura cyane🤗
Njye ndabona
@SamanthaTeta
asa na
@LMushikiwabo
?
Witegereje neza urabona badasa?
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But ya'll want Rwanda to sing Kumbaya with terrorists. If any one in this region said these exact words it would branded extremist, dictator, regime...please.
Biden to perpetrators of Kabul attacks: "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay"
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Cabo Delgado📍
Congratulations are in order for Afande Bahizi who was today promoted to the rank of Brigadier General! 🤩🎉
He serves as the Battle Group Commander for the Rwanda Security Forces in Mozambique.
RDF PRESS RELEASE – PROMOTION IN THE RWANDA DEFENCE FORCE
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#DearSurvivor
,
We asked you to share their names. You did.
We asked you to share their photos. You did.
We asked you to testify. You did.
Dufitanye igihango:
The memory of those you lost is a gift of love we will share generation after generation, age after age, forever.
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This is a 1994 photo of a Rwandan toddler clinging to his father, who died of cholera in the then Zaire. It was taken by David Turnley, who photographed the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda & its aftermath.
Fact check. Inform your outrage for more keen & sincere action.
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I got plenty of questions about visiting retired, disabled veterans of liberation. I propose you listen to this amazing podcast & then visit Rugende village (Kabuga) where you will meet the incomparable Lt (Rtd) Joseph Sabena.
Oh he is a force to reckon with! His laughters &
Our guest this week is Lt (Rtd) Joseph Sabena, a soldier who fought and was gravely wounded during the Liberation War (1990-1994).
@JosephSabena
joins us to discuss his life growing up as a Rwandan refugee in Uganda, surviving the camps, joining the Ugandan army in 1987 and
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The media assault over the last two days has had me thinking a lot about Umukandida Wacu, President Kagame.
One moment stands out: April 7th, the first time I heard him speak publicly about his personal loss during the Genocide against the Tutsi.
"At that time, I had a very
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@LonzenRugira
@sarahwcurtis
I intend to be this dramatic as well. Print it on curtains, durags, you name it.
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Pleasant sight in the banlieue, well out of Paris this morning 🥰
People going about their day with the reminder to
#VisitRwanda
👏🏽👌🏾
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Like how does this happen and is there room for Beyonce mu nganzo ngali.
J. Cole is on the Rwanda Patriots roster for the upcoming Basketball Africa League. 🇷🇼🏀
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Then commenced a whole thread of Fathers and their babies 🖤🖤
This father stuff will turn you soft man, really soft lol 😍😍😍
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It was such a privilege to witness life, joy & peace restored in Cabo Delgado thanks to the joint efforts of the
#Mozambican
and
#Rwandan
Security Forces.
I'm truly rooting for this place and if life is kind, I hope to meet the friends I have made here again in the future. ✨🫶🏾
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One of the first conversation I ever had with
@Inkotanyi_C
was about club Rafiki. Love to see a seat at the table for young people at
#Umushyikirano2023
and the incredible insights they offer.
Tuned in:
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“RDF twihaye intego, RDF ku rugamba ntidusubira inyuma n’umurage w’abatubanjirije, ubutwari mwagaragaje tuzabukurikiza.
Ababunga mu mashyamba, bafite umugambi wo gusenya u Rwanda bazarukurahe kandi dufite inshingano zo kururinda.” ✊🏾😎
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Might have to frame this tbh 🥹
Urakoze Cyane, aya n’ amagambo yubaka umuntu rwose 🙏🏽
Well done
@SamanthaTeta
Ikiganiro wakiyoboye neza mu Kinyarwanda kinoze.
Wakiyoboranye ubuhanga, amagambo afite ireme ashyigikiwe n'inseko yuje ubwuzu kandi ukeye mu maso.
Nta munya, nta gihunga.
Keep it up.
#Umushyikirano2024
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There were many facets to the role of Women in the Liberation struggle. From the political cadres and soldiers to the caretakers (doctors, nurses, volunteers), etc.
Please share stories, anecdotes, little known facts you know, about their efforts in particular
#Kwibohora26
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The first punishment will be that Rwanda banned these products.
JUST IN:
The United States government deports Genocide suspect Beatrice Munyenyezi back to Rwanda this Friday, it has emerged.
Munyenyezi is a wanted Genocide suspect who played a major role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in the former Butare Prefecture, now Huye District
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Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique📍
~16-12-23~
A young mother with her baby boy strapped to her chest waits her turn at the medical outreach program jointly organised by Rwandan and Mozambique Security Forces.
A year ago, this was a terrorist stronghold. None of that now 🫶🏾
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We hear plenty about winning the hearts & minds of populations but not enough about doing so with the insurgency.
Really interesting conversations happening
@Rwandapolice
symposium.
If you missed the morning session 👇🏽
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Bangui, CAR 📍
The super star in blue is Jamilla, one of the 1,500 girls being educated at the Kina school rehabilitated by the Rwandan contingent in MINUSCA. There are also 900 equally exuberant boys here.
The sweet spot of restoring peace is restoring childhoods. ✨🫶🏾
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cyakoze man, it must really suck to be a hater of Rwanda 😁 thoughts and prayers vrmt.
WATCH: Several thousands of RPF supporters and Kigali residents had arrived at Tuesday's campaign site in Nyarugenge before dawn.
Nyarugenge is
#Kagame
's fifth campaign rally in four days.
#RwandaDecides
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~ Objects & Memory: What we have that belonged to those we loved, that carries our stories of love & loss. ~
These dresses belonged to these two precious girls: Raissa Umutoni (3) and her sister Clarisse Uwonkunda (5). They were wearing them when they were both killed, during
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I'm a sucker for beauty, and nothing beats a midnight stroll at Pont Neuf — the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris — with our amazing community. 🫶🏿✨
Sending love to everyone in Musanze right now, we're there in spirit! 🔴⚪️🔵
#Rwandadecides
RPF-Inkotanyi supporters launched on Saturday night election campaigns in Paris, France, in an event that took place at Pont Neuf.
It is part of the broader campaign efforts leading up to the presidential and parliamentary elections in
#Rwanda
next month.
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Deeply engaging & creating work around Kwibuka is not easy, the horrors, loss & trauma 28 years on are still palpable.
Ahead of
#Kwibuka28
I keep coming back to H.E's words: "What we have set out to do is not for the half-hearted, let alone the heartless."
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Mocimboa da Praia📍
Today, at the market place I met the beautiful Celma Ei de Ouro, a 37 year old primary school teacher.
She fled the insurgency in 2021, but returned this year after Rwandan & Mozambican forces secured the area. She composed songs about them as a tribute 😍
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#Rwandaworks
🙏🏽
🚨🇺🇸SINALOA CARTEL LEADERS TRICKED INTO ARREST ON PRIVATE PLANE
A federal law enforcement source revealed to Fox News that Joaquin Guzman Lopez deceived Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada into boarding a private plane, claiming it was bound for Mexico.
Instead, the flight headed to El
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I'm really looking forward to this conversation on how to decode Genocide denial with
@lindamelvern
and also delver deeper into her outstanding book: "Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi."
I hope you will join us today, 7pm CAT, via zoom:
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Awasse, Mozambique📍
Today, I had the pleasure of meeting Chief Irene Nhassala Njueka who leads 5 localities.
Her community is still reeling from trauma as the insurgency killed many of the residents. They are rebuilding slowly but surely. You can’t help but root for them 💯
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Instagram is so beautiful right now. Images, videos, films, stories—the way young Rwandans are using IG to share and commemorate is heartwarming 🩵
Dukomeze
#Kwibuka30
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whats her hair care routine? 😍
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Bangui, CAR 📍9:40 pm:
The city it alive: music blaring, street food & fashion, road side board games, there is something for everyone.
And in the midst of so much life happening is Ingabo z’u Rwanda, patrolling, protecting & serving ✨🫶🏾
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qoute this tweet with any personal anecdotes, little know facts, pictures or testimonies & so on about Inkotanyi.
we can use the
#ThankyouInkotanyi
✊🏾 as a medium of storytelling to just share about what Inkotanyi mean to us, honour their sacrifice or just to say Thank you 🙏🏽.
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intore yacu
@YannickKamanzi
🤩🤩
always such a pleasure to behold! ✨
#Kigali
àParis
#Rwandaartsinitiative
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Listening to survivors, I often have one disorienting moment where I can’t grasp how the person survived—death seemed so certain. And then they say, “Nuko Inkotanyi ziraza.”
Happy Liberation day mon petit pays, the country that survived. May the 4th be with us 🫶🏾✊🏾
#Kwibohora30
Inkotanyi z'Amarere, Mfura z’u Rwanda, there are no unsung heroes.
Whether or not we know their names or fate, we enjoy the fruits of their struggle.
Everything that lives, everything that grows sings their triumph!
Thank you for giving us a country we are proud to claim! 🇷🇼
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📍
@PSG_inside
⚽️
My favourite thing about the
#VisitRwanda
brand is that it’s also an embodiment of a really cool lifestyle.
Very much for anyone who enjoys the thrill of new experiences, new people and exploration of the self and more 🫶🏾
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African Travel & Tourism sector could add US$168BN to our continent’s economy and create over 18 million new jobs.
What a pleasure to witness GoR’s efforts to show the world all that Rwanda has to offer
@WTTC
🌍✨
#GSRwanda
@visitrwanda_now
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Aww this is a beautiful story 💛
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Karasira and surviving members of his family were rescued by Inkotanyi on the morning of April 12th 1994.
He remembers those soldiers having tears in their eyes at the scenes in Nyanza and as they sought for signs of life amongst the corpses.
#Kwibuka30
To know Mzhe Karasira
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The dignity & elegance with which Jamaica has received
#PresidentWacu
has been heartwarming to see.
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Rwanda, you're doing amazing sweetie 😍😍
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“Remain conscious of the power our education holds & the responsibility that comes with it.”
@ruth_zihiga
wacu.
The Highest Academic Achievement Performer in the One Health Option: Master of Science in Global Health
@ughe_org
🎓🫶🏾🔥👏🏾
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she was the source of much laughter and ease for many. may she rest in peace disi 💐🕊️
Nyiransengiyumva Valentine wamenyekanye nka Dorimbogo, yitabye Imana kuri uyu wa 27 Nyakanga 2024 aguye mu bitaro bya Kibuye.
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There’s beauty in the fact that even though we may not know nor meet each other in person, right here, we can commemorate together.
No voice for the next 7 days should be louder than our remembrance 🩵
#Kwibuka30
As we commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
#Kwibuka30
, let us contribute to making digital spaces places of remembrance, learning, and communion.
Twibuke Twiyubaka.
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ETO is etched on my soul.
Most of the 2,000 Tutsi, including 400 children gathered here were killed.
The abandonment of these people is a Crime against Humanity committed by the United Nations.
Uyu munsi tariki 11 Mata, turibuka inzirakarengane z'Abatutsi biciwe i Nyanza ya Kicukiro, nyuma yo gutereranwa n'ingabo za L'ONU muri ETO-Kicukuro🕯️
#Kwibuka28
@KwibukaRwanda
@Unity_MemoryRw
@GAERGRwanda
@AERGFAMILY
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🔹Kwibuka is a profound act of love:
It’s love for survivors & acknowledgement of the wounds that remain.
🔹Kwibuka is recognition of who is missing here:
Over a million people used to be here.
How could we forget, when we have over a million reasons to remember?
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I love it for baby girl shooting her shot and getting that medical education secured ❣️
There is nothing like the tranquility of pursuing an education without worrying about cost.
#Umushyikirano2024
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Baby girl
@IngridCyitatire
—your sincerity & pride comes through so beautifully, I could listen to you all day ♥️ Your message is 10/10 💯
There couldn't have been a better choice than
@IngridCyitatire
to represent
#GenPK
✊🏾:
To those who think we are aimless and voiceless, in Pres
@PaulKagame
's words she tells them, Nobody should pretend to care for us more than we do because we know what we want... And
#Rwanda
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📍Nyanza, Kicukiro.
Someone once said that in 1994, the thousands of Tutsi—dehumanized and slaughtered—must have thought that the end of the world had come. How else could anyone explain those horrors?
But here we all are, 30 years later, standing together in their final
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Ndumva nabuze aho ndeba, the whole timeline is Rwanda
#Winning
😭 👏🏿
💙💛💚
Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 will host the 73rd FIFA Congress on 16 March 2023. The 2023 FIFA presidential election will take place at the 73rd FIFA Congress.
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“I couldn’t wait to wake up!” 
Baby sis is voting for the very first time and her excitement is so infectious 🥰
#RwandaDecides
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Venuste Karasira, lovingly knows as Mzhe Karasira, survived the massacre at Nyanza with his wife and some of his children.
I’m sharing here, in 3 parts, his testimony of what occurred on that bloody day of 11th April 1994.
Part 1:
The Belgians Decide to Abandon 2000 Tutsi
3) Venuste Karasira, one of the few men who survived the massacre of Tutsis at Nyanza ya Kicukiro, was shot and lost his arm.
Above: Photo of Karasira after being rescued by RPA Inkotanyi and receiving treatment.
Below: Venuste Karasira giving testimony during 20th
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we need a rationale that goes beyond jesus/culture/morals.
imagine if covid response had been left to MPs and they made national decisions based on how things have always been done, instead of relying on science, data, and facts on the ground.
AMASHUSHO
Abadepite banze kwemeza ishingiro ry'umushinga w'itegeko ryerekeye ubuzima bw'imyororokere, ryari kuzemerera umwana ufite imyaka 15 guhabwa servisi zo kuboneza urubyaro, nk'igisubizo cyo gukumira ikibazo cy'inda ziterwa abangavu.
#RBAAmakuru
➡️
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I'm done with school. done DONE. finished. completed whew. 🙌🏿
I have been so privileged to study things I love, write, create, exchange... Always going to look back on this fondly 🖤🎊
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Back in high school, we started a project of visiting retired, disabled soldiers’ villages during Kwibohora period. We’d bake & sell pastries to raise money for their cooperative.
I thought the project died when we left, but one of the residents told me that this year’s cohort
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#Kwibuka27
We remember the babies who never stood a chance. Sweet rest little ones 💛
#Turibuka
#Turibuka
ibitambambuga n’abana bose bavukijwe ubuzima n’indoto zabo na Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi.
#Kwibuka26
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And whose duty is it to act when the rights of Rwandans are violated? Seeing as the international community is historically and presently prone to ignorance and incompetence. We don’t need to wait to see what Europe is going to do...we been knew Hilde.
“The international community is watching us. They are waiting to see what
#Europe
is going to do. Because Mr
#Rusesabagina
is a European citizen. It is our duty to act when the rights of one of our citizens are violated.” in
#EPlenary
@reneweurope
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there is no such thing as an ‘underage woman.’
23,000 pregnant children is a State of Emergency.
Teenage pregnancy has been on the rise for years, with 17,337 underage women conceiving in 2017, 19,832 in 2018, 23,544 in 2019, 19,701 in 2020 and 23,000 last year.
Is teenage pregnancy screaming lack of access to contraception?
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and Reconciliation Commission. In all capacities, she worked hard to better the welfare of women at the rural-grassroots level. Inyumba passed away in 2012.
A warrior and visionary. Inkotanyi Cyane.
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Our small
@DigitalKwibuka
account on Instagram reached over 100,000 accounts this week.
All of us have swapped stories, shared testimonies, resources & amplified our commemorative voices.
The ripple effect of our collective Kwibuka digital footprint is powerful.
No one can
Instagram is so beautiful right now. Images, videos, films, stories—the way young Rwandans are using IG to share and commemorate is heartwarming 🩵
Dukomeze
#Kwibuka30
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When the foreigners leave,
the world will pretend not to notice.
Nature will bear us witness.
The rivers carrying ours will know no
borders. The skies will weep with us.
The April rain will drown our blood.
For many time will stop.
For others it will be painfully slow.
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For me, Remembrance is a profound act of Love.
It’s immense love for survivors, and acknowledgement of the love taken, the absence felt, the words unspoken and the voices longed for.
It’s also profoundly about love for this country & consequently, its security.
#Kwibuka28
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There really is no place like home, especially where all life is so preciously protected ✨🦍🌍
#KwitaIzina19
#conservation
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‘Mu ntambara z'urudaca uhorana intsinzi
Ntawe ukora nkibyo ukora
Waduhaye igihugu
Gitemba amata nubuki
Warakoze Mana’ 🎶
@julesentore
#Kwibohora29
🇷🇼💙
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