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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 ...

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 ...

This is the second of three excerpts from the new book “Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation’s Quest for Redemption” (Free Press) by The New York ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hate speech against Tutsi communities in DR Congo is an ongoing, serious issue described as reaching alarming levels - particularly in the country’s east - and is recognized as a precursor to ...

In a corrupt country like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), lies often drive out the truth, and the nation finds itself immersed in a cycle of deception fuelled by careless leaders such ...

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 ...