April 7 marks 30 years since the start of a genocide that would see nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus murdered in ...
Moderate Hutus who tried to protect Tutsis were also killed — and there were killings of Hutu civilians by members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army, led by Kagame, as it liberated territory from ...
The first republic born from the revolution rapidly became authoritarian and crumbled under its own contradictions, and was toppled by a military coup in 1973. The second republic again fell prey to ...
The Tutsi, unlike the other two groups, were offered a western education, and thus held all positions of authority in Rwanda. In 1960, the Hutu group rebelled against the Tutsi leadership, frustrated ...
Detectives are looking into to possibility of charging Rwandan's living in the UK with historic offences 30 years on from the ...
The town of Masisi is in a rich, mountainous location that provides access to the provincial capital of Goma. M23 rebel ...
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said Thursday that recent peace talks with DR Congo had been merely a photo opportunity for leaders and demanded new efforts to solve their deadly conflict.
"Between 1 and 3 January 2025, intense clashes between the Congolese army and a non-state armed group in Masisi Centre, North ...
Rwanda's colonial history is one marred with ... one for the Tutsi and the other for the Hutu. They drew examples from the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium. ALSO READ: A glance at socio-political ...
Rwanda’s ethnic composition remains largely unchanged since 1994, with a Hutu majority. The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people. Kagame’s Tutsi-dominated ...
The peace plan that was set to be signed envisaged Rwanda dismantling what it has called its defensive measures in the conflict in exchange for Congo eliminating a Hutu rebel group, the Democratic ...