In October 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a movement led by children of Tutsi who had fled the 1959 revolution, attacked Rwanda from Uganda. They claimed they were fighting for the right ...

On Sunday, Rwanda will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in the Central African nation. More than 1 million people — mostly from the Tutsi minority ethnic group ...

One million Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda while the West turned a blind eye. As the U.N.s Genocide Conventioncreated to make sure genocide would never happen againmarks ...

When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...

In the previous article in this series, we saw the pros and cons of the election process and the road to independence. In this article, the culmination of independence and the new dispensation will be ...

Rwanda's government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some ...

Rwanda accuses the DRC of sheltering the FDLR, an armed group created by ethnic Hutus who massacred Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The summit comes as the M23 advances on the town of ...

Rwanda has long denied supporting M23 and says it is defending itself, accusing Congo's military of joining forces with ethnic Hutu-led militias bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and ...

U.N. experts have documented the export of large quantities of looted Congolese minerals via Rwanda. M23 is the latest ethnic Tutsi-led insurgency backed by Rwanda to fight in Congo since the 1994 ...

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda. Burundi, whose ruling party draws heavily from the ...