Venuste Nshimiyimana
Rwandan-Belgian journalist
Vénuste Nshimiyimana is a Rwandan-born Belgian journalist. He is a presenter of the daily One o'Clock News show for the Great Lakes Region on Voice of America. He is a former presenter for the BBC TV bulletin programme (BBC Info) and the weekly news roundup for BBC Hebdo. As a senior team manager, he was editorially responsible for BBC Afrique’s TV output.
Early life and education
Nshimiyimana was born in 1973 in Gishamvu sector of Nyumba district in the Southern Province of Rwanda and attended Nyumba Primary School and The Nyakibanda Major Seminary. A graduate of The Open University, where he received a Master's degree in social sciences, he also attended Anglia Ruskin University from 2016–2017, receiving a postgraduate diploma in marketing and studied international humanitarian law at the London School of Economics.
In April 1994, Nshimiyimana was living in the capital city of Kigali when the Rwandan genocide began. Hoping to escape the massacre, he took refuge in the compound of the school Ecole technique officielle Don Bosco. He witnessed how the UN peacekeepers, made up of Belgian, French and Italian soldiers, abandoned all the refugees except those with foreign nationalities.
Broadcasting career
Nshimiyimana began his journalistic career as a trainee for Rwanda Television in Brussels (1991).
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