As April begins, Rwanda commemorates the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, a time to reflect on the events of 31 years ago and the complicity—both direct and indirect—of various actors, particularly ...

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ...

The M23 rebel group was formed in 2012 by former Congolese soldiers, mainly from the Tutsi ethnic group. The group takes its ...

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military assistance but says it faces a threat in the DRC's east from the FDLR group, founded by ethnic Hutu leaders involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of ...

The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis ...

The lives of millions of people. All are now under the control of the M23 militia and its powerful backer, Rwanda. M23 reigns over a vast territory in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic ...

during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda (DRC’s neighbor to the east). During and following the genocide, nearly two ...

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military assistance but says it faces a threat in the DRC's east from the FDLR group, founded by ethnic Hutu leaders involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pressed deeper into Congolese territory a day after Congo and Rwanda's presidents called for an immediate ceasefire, entering the outskirts of the town of Walikale late on ...