🇷🇼 Rwanda In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
11
Opposition / diaspora critics / progressive dissidents
Governing side
RIGHT
19
RPF establishment / security hardliners
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to Rwanda political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
+49 / +52
Politicians
+42 / +82
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
August 2024
│
DRC war-accusation and counter-threat rhetoric
October 2024
│
Security crackdown and dissident rhetoric
January 2025
│
Regional war-risk rhetoric spike
February 2025
│
Goma crisis spillover and war-threat rhetoric peak
April 2025
│
Genocide commemoration and hate-speech enforcement rhetoric
July 2025
│
Liberation Day nationalist security rhetoric
October 2025
│
High-profile dissident arrests and diaspora protest rhetoric
February 2026
│
Regional crisis anniversary polarization
April 2026
│
Kwibuka genocide remembrance rhetoric peak
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology