There is no linguistic or religious distinction between the two groups; they share a common culture in many ways. After having read Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the ...

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 ...

The international community is scrambling to organize a summit to prevent a resumption of the fighting in Congo that has displaced a quarter-million people in recent weeks. But the conflict will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Militants from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) stand near a pile of weapons after their surrender in ...

Nine-months pregnant and hiding under a bed, soaked in blood from her murdered relatives, Denise Uwimana’s waters broke. She had no safe place to give birth. Her eldest son whispered, “Mama, is this ...

Tutsi widows and orphans felt betrayed by the church during the genocide. Survivor Denise Uwimana made it her mission to help them heal. It has been 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, when Hutu ...

At least 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide The convicted man is a Swedish citizen of Hutu origin A Swedish citizen of Rwandan origin was sentenced to life in prison Thursday by a court ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's army on Thursday declared the official start of operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels, but a senior army official said combat had not yet begun. Army spokesman General ...