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 ...

The genocidal civil war that took place in the East African nation of Rwanda in 1994, claiming the lives of some 800,000 people, has been well depicted in the popular film “Hotel Rwanda.” The cause of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda took the lives of up to one million victims, the offspring of Tutsi survivors, who weren't even born at the time, are among those most ...

There are no pictures of Rwanda in his office. No reminders of his childhood. No photos of sisters or uncles or other extended family. The Hutus who killed Alexandre Kimenyi's relatives made sure they ...

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 ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi's ruling party is purging ethnic Tutsi army officers in a campaign of repression, a human rights group says, accusing the international community of inaction amid deadly ...

When talking about the origin of the ethnic conflict in eastern DR Congo – in the Kivus – many people fail to understand that it is a project born in Brussels. Most people don't realize, as Tom ...

The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...