Kigali Genocide Memorial

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $250 million in new food aid on Thursday, June 23, 2022, and blamed the growing threat of starvation squarely on Russia as he prepared to meet with leaders whose nations are feeling the pangs of famine.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid his respects to victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in Kigali, Rwanda where he is attempting to build consensus with Commonwealth nations to prevent a new humanitarian crisis.

Gov. Gen. Julie Payette laid a wreath at a memorial in Rwanda's capital on Sunday, April 7, 2019, to mark 25 years since the start of a genocide that left an estimated 800,000 people dead.