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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 ...

For those of you who may not be aware, in Kinyarwanda – the national language of Rwanda – the word “Kwibuka” means “to remember”. The importance of remembering is why “Kwibuka” has become the official ...

As his comrades died of starvation and thirst around him, Mbale Hafashimana Amos finally decided to flee the Congolese bush ...

One of the major conflicts that shook Africa in the 1990s was the ethnic strife between the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda. Since 1994, there has been much news coverage about the genocide of over 800,000 ...

In a mere 100 days, an estimated one million people were brutally murdered in a campaign of mass slaughter that still horrifies a generation later. In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was scarred by ...

The United Nations will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda with events under the theme “Remember. Unite. Renew.”. The events remember the victims and honour the ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, Pascal ...

Opinion - Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe's natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles.

Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated in October to commemorate her October 2010 arrest. Rwanda has one ...

FILE – A boy who survived a massacre in the village of Karubamba in April and whose leg was wounded by a machete, rests on his crutches at a hospital near Gahini, in Rwanda, May 13, 1994. The ...