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 ...

Analysis - In 1994, sticks, stones, and machetes broke Tutsi bones, but words hurt them first. On September 27, 1959, in Ngoma, southern Rwanda, words spoken at a political rally would leave a long ...

Rwanda will begin commemorating 30 years on Sunday since the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 people dead, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic minority. For three decades, researchers have been ...

In essence, Rwandans are one people throughout history. Colonialists created divisions among them as a strategy to achieve their devious goals. In the last piece of this serialised narrative, we saw ...

Throughout this month, The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history.The Bahutu Manifesto, drafted by nine Rwandan Hutu ...

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 ...

Hate speech against Tutsi communities in DR Congo is an ongoing, serious issue described as reaching alarming levels - particularly in the country's east - and is recognized as a precursor to ...

Thirty years since the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda, survivors Faina Iligoga and Aubert Ruzigandekwe plan to create a permanent documentation and healing centre in their adopted home of ...

From 1959 to the genocide the Hutu leaders, put in place by the Belgian rule in a last ditch attempt to maintain their presence in Rwanda, implemented a policy of establishing a Hutu power without the ...