April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...
Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...
Major-General Sylvain Ekenge has been sanctioned for using xenophobic tropes against Tutsi women on national television, ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch judges have convicted a Rwandan Hutu, Joseph Mpambara, of involvement in the slaying of two Tutsi mothers and at least four of their children during their country's 1994 ...
STORY: Kamanzi Innocent lost four members of his family among a crowd of Tutsi's killed by Hutus during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Hutu militia lobbed grenades into a church where they were ...
Josephine Dusabimana says she rescued 12 people during the Rwandan genocide. (Jacques Nkinzingabo for NPR) LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is ...
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...
The genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda began 25 years ago this month. Over just 100 days, about 800,000 people — many of them Tutsis — were killed by Hutu extremists. But just a month before the ...
RUTSHURU, Congo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Congolese civilians fled east into neighboring Uganda on Wednesday to escape reported attacks on villages by Tutsi rebels who said they were hunting their ...
Discriminatory remarks made by the spokesperson of the DR Congo's armed forces during a televised interview have sparked condemnation from political leaders, civil society organisations, and ...
It’s not easy to understand how suddenly neighbors can turn on neighbors, friends can kill friends, family can slay family. Unless, says the Rev. Deogratias Mbonyumugenzi, you understand how the ...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has taken issue with recent partial condemnation statements by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege, describing ...