Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

Mr. Chairman, I am grateful to you for the opportunity briefly to thank the Committee for the keen interest it has shown during the discussion on the problems which concern my Office. The views ...

Over 90 per cent of Rwanda's historical artifacts including cultural materials, political documents, songs, and visuals that are crucial in defining the uniqueness of Rwandans, remain in colonial ...

Above Lake Tanganyika’s blue waters the Bahutu or Wahutu (singular Muhutu) were minding their own business 300 years ago when the Batutsi or Watusi (singular: Mututsi) wandered in, probably from ...

Alongside the Spanish and British Empires, there were several major colonial powers that rose in Europe and ruled for prolonged periods of time. Let's have a glance at the top longest colonial ...

Caught in the turmoil of the newly-independent Republic of Congo were some 2,000 Protestant missionaries including 1,200 Americans and 250 Canadians. At stake was a century or more of Christian ...

THIS work is the second edition of what is in effect a guide to the protected mammals and birds of Africa, as well as a handbook of Nature preservation in the Belgian Congo. More than two hundred ...

Fain, A. (two papers in the press). Taramelli, R., and Dubois, A., Ann. Soc. Belge Méd. Trop., 11, 151 (1931).

A court has ordered Belgium to pay millions of dollars in compensation to five mixed-race women who were forcibly taken from their homes in the Belgian Congo as children, under a colonial-era practice ...