African Facts can reveal that Kaumbu Mandungu Bula, one of the key advisers to the Congolese presidency, has direct links to Rwanda’s former first family in exile. Members of their network travel between Europe, Kinshasa and the Kivus, while others hold command positions in the Congolese army.
African Facts has investigated the background of Thaddée Kwitonda, a Belgian-Rwandan facing genocide charges, who now shuttles between Belgium and circles close to the Congolese presidency. He operates in a murky environment where Rwanda’s former ruling clan and members of criminal armed groups intersect.
The investigating chamber met on Wednesday 28 January 2026 to examine the appeal lodged by the public prosecutor’s office and the civil parties against the order dismissing the case issued on 20 August 2025 in the Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana affair. She has already publicly claimed that she has been “declared innocent”. What is the reality?
Armel Niyongere, a Burundian lawyer and human rights defender, looks back on ten years of legal battles. While the domestic situation in Burundi is causing growing concern due to an unprecedented crackdown on civic space, unlimited repression, and a considerable...
This cannot be stated with certainty at this stage, according to Armel Niyongere, a Burundian lawyer and human rights defender, outlining the racist nature of Burundi’s current regime and its implications. He warns of worrying signs in the country.
Historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien reflects on Burundi’s early years of independence, up to the 1972 crime during which tens of thousands of people were killed.
Armel Niyongere, Burundian lawyer and human rights defender, discusses the current situation in Burundi. Episode 2/4 While the domestic situation in Burundi is causing growing concern due to an unprecedented crackdown on civic space, unlimited repression, and a...
Burundian lawyer and human rights defender Armel Niyongere looks back on the 2015 political crisis in Burundi and the subsequent blind repression that continues to this day.
In this final episode, Jean-Pierre Chrétien discusses how colonisation had a lasting and negative impact on social relationships in Rwanda and Burundi, which continued until independence and the emergence of a local far-right movement.
The belief in the false hypothesis of the existence of a "Hamitic" people lies at the heart of the reactionary and racist ideologies that have caused so much bloodshed in East Africa. In this exclusive interview, French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien explains the...
Sur le continent africain, de nombreux conflits sont aujourd’hui mal compris en raison du manque, voire parfois de l’absence de sources d’informations indépendantes, factuelles et facilement accessibles. Cette carence informationnelle constitue à nos yeux un vide inquiétant et dangereux qui permet aux narrations fallacieuses, aux chiffres fantaisistes, aux fausses nouvelles et aux discours de haine de prospérer. C’est ce vide propice à la désinformation qu’African Facts se donne pour mission de combler.
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