Born out of conflict: How cricket is helping heal Rwanda’s wounds

Bringing together people once tragically divided by ethnicity is Rwandese cricket’s way of burying a very ugly past.

For Rwandese cricketer Diane Ishimwe, every passing day brings about a sense of gratitude and gratefulness. In 1994, when her pregnant mother was about to leave home to deliver Ishimwe, she had a miraculous escape after a stray bullet fired by an armed fighter flew just inches above her head. “They almost killed her,” Ishimwe told Al Jazeera. “When she stepped out of the house, there were gunshots. Thankfully, she survived. She had to give birth in the house.