Today, Kagame is president of Rwanda, and he insists on reconciliation between the warring groups. It was an incredible ...

In the previous article in this series, we saw how a monarchy described as Tutsi-based was replaced with a Hutu-based republic. In both cases the Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and ...

In the last piece of this series, we looked at the circumstances that led to the Inyenzi attacks in the 1960s. In this piece, the effects and repercussions of the Inyenzi struggle as well as its ...

Rwanda just became the latest African country to break residual chains and kick out their former Belgian colonisers.

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda ...

The resurgence of Rwanda-backed insurgents in eastern Congo has reignited a decades-old conflict over ethnic rivalries, ...

Their work has not only helped preserve the memories of some of the 800,000 victims of the vicious bloodletting, but also ...

In 1990, the Rwanda Patriotic Front, made up of Tutsi refugees based in Uganda, started a civil war trying to take back control of Rwanda, and in response in 1994 Hutu extremists began a genocide ...

He is celebrated at home for having helped end the genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the army and Hutu extremist militias. "James is very disciplined ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's army denied Sunday that 20 fighters linked to the Rwandan genocide had been captured on its territory, calling a video of their handover to Rwanda "faked." The ...

Interview - The ongoing crisis in DR Congo has drawn international attention, with various stakeholders weighing in on its causes and potential resolutions. Former Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe, a ...