When you're the former president in an African country but didn't kill innocent people, didn't grab land or steal elections or imprisoned opponents or change the constitution in your favour,
this is how peacefully you live in retirement. This is Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania 🤝🙏🏽👆🏽
As I am in my final days with the BBC World Service, where I served as the editor of The Great Lakes Service, one of the bloodiest regions in Africa, for 17 years, I am delighted that in 2015 I was named as one of the 10 role model journalists in Africa.
March 23rd was my last day working with the BBC Great Lakes Service. I would like to thank the team I have worked with in the coverage of one of the turbulent and bloodiest regions in the world. They deserve to be honoured as unsung heroes.
Nsagije iyi nkuru ya Cyuma kubera ko inteye agahinda. Mbababajwe n'uko Cyuma, dusangiye umwuga, afashwe nk'icyihebe. Ndishyira mu mwanya wa Cyuma, ubuzima abayemo, sinshobore ku byakira. Abamwunganira barabyemeza. Bategetsi, ko muri abantu,mwagize umutima mukamutabara.
This is to inform my friends and foes that after 17 years as the editor for the BBC Great Lakes Service, I have decided to move on. From today, I am on long leave until the end of March 2023.
For your information, Mr. Cleverly, Rwanda is rather the 5th most densely populated in the world, the most densely populated in mainland Africa, 4th smallest country in mainland Africa.
RIP Ali Hassan Mwinyi. He will be remembered for his efforts in getting a solution for the Rwandan crisis and the Great Lakes region. Sadly, his ideas were ignored by hard-headed tribalistic leaders. In the picture, he was in Kigali when I worked for Radio Rwanda.
Maze gusoma ibitekerezo byatanzwe ku butumwa nabasangije ku kababaro natewe n'ukuntu Cyuma afashwe. Ndashimira abanyamaganye n'abanshyigikiye.
Ndashimira Radio East Africa Live yatumiye Dr Kambanda gusesengura icyo kibazo. Hera ku munota wa 6 - 44.
It is a year since I quit the BBC, where my last post was editor of the Great Lakes Service. My expectation of tranquillity in my retirement has proved otherwise. Pro gov social media portrays me as an anti Rwanda, genocide denier and supporting genocide perpetrators.
Mu gihe twitegura icyunamo, mboneyeho umwanya wo kwamagana Future TV n'abandi barimo Ngendakumana bambeshyera ko mu imvo n'imvano nateguye kuri 12/7/2014 navuze ko Abatutsi biteguriye jenoside. Umva uko iyo TV yabivuze:
In recognition of my outstanding journalism, on June 17, I was honoured to speak at a farewell party of 3 Legends of Focus on Africa, Hassan Arouni Veronique Edwards, and Bola Mosuro.
@michelawrong
Twagiramungu will be remembered for his role in the struggle for democracy. He became a refugee after refusing to be a puppet prime minister in the so-called gvt of national unity led by the RPF. About 40 members of his family were killed in the genocide despite being Hutu.
Abankunda n'abanyanga ndabamenyesha ko nyuma y'imyaka 17 nyobora BBC Gahuzamiryango, nafashe icyemezo cyo gusezera. Guhera uyu munsi ndi mu kiruhuko kugeza mu mpera z'ukwezi kwa gatatu 2023.
@AbroadTanzania
Unazidi kujidhalilisha kwa kusambaza hoja potofu na kijinga. Nadhani una nongwa na uislamu. Mapigano ya Hamas yanatokana na itikadi za kizayuni za kunyang'anya wapalestina ardhi yao. Sio uislamu. What's wrong with you.
When Victors Tell the Story: The UN's Victims in Rwanda - a revised book of Amadou Deme, former UN intellingence officer before, during, and after the genocide. An account of how the UN's double standard paved the way for genocide and interferred with the genocide trials.
I think you are confusing Mai Mai with Wazalendo. Mai Mai rebel groups were formed to protect their respective tribes and have now joined into Wazalendo to fight their common enemy: M23. It is an open secret that some of the Mai Mai groups were the proxies of Rwanda.
@NkubitoNicholas
Wazalendo is a Swahili word meaning patriot, not native. In singular is Mzalendo in plural is Wazalendo. It is commonly used in Swahili speaking countries
Today, I was given a slot to speak about my book -Vitimbi vya Mama wa Kambo- at the Kiswahili Tanzania Day in London. I thank the organisers of the
event for giving me that opportunity. Kiswahili Oyee.
C’est avec le coeur lourd que le groupe
#SOP
annonce le décès du Lt-Col Muvunyi survenu au Niger ce 9 sept 2023.
C’était un homme courageux qui s’est battu jusqu’au bout et c'est avec dignité qu'il nous quitte. Repose en paix héro du Rwanda !
@GOVUK
@UNHCRNiger
@PresidenceNiger
Namibia's President Hage Geingob walking freely, without security to interact with people in public.
Namibia is among the Top Ten Best Governed Countries in Africa.
The root cause of the indignation is the weekly flagship interactive prog Imvo n'imvano "heart of the matter," I hosted. It became synonymous with my name. Imvo n'imvano crossed the redline by giving voice to the critics of the secretive gov, which feared debates.
@NishatL
@hassanarouni
Hassan Arouni, welcome to life after the BBC. You are joining thousands of others, me included, who is finding it worthwhile to leave the organisation with pride.I will remember you as a man who stood for the rights of colleagues treated unfairly.
@michelawrong
Being a journalist who covered the Great Lakes region for nearly 3 decades and the editor of the BBC Radio Service that targets that region, I do urge anyone with interest in understanding the truth on the crisis in Eastern DR Congo to listen to this presentation.
The latest example of my smearing is a programme on Online Future TV triggered by a tweet I posted on the passing of ex prime minister of the so-called Gov of National Unity Twagiramungu. Th programme,packed with lies, depicted me as anti Rwanda and supporter of FDLR rebels.