Throughout this month, The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history.The Bahutu Manifesto, drafted by nine Rwandan Hutu ...
The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...
As the Ministry of Education held a commemoration event to honor 77 of its former employees who were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Egide Kayitare shared a testimony about the ...
10 years ago this Wednesday, on April 7, 1994, the newly Christianized African nation of Rwanda erupted into unprecedented ethnic slaughter. Where was the church then? And how can it help Rwandans ...
When talking about the origin of the ethnic conflict in eastern DR Congo – in the Kivus – many people fail to understand that it is a project born in Brussels. Most people don't realize, as Tom ...
Three survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda came to Bates this week to openly discuss with students the trauma that’s been woven into their lives and their country’s history for ...
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 ...
Please see the important note for details. Due to COVID-19, the traditional commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the ...
It would be confusing, unfair, and overly presumptuous for anyone to say that he or she clearly understands the Rwandan genocide that began in April of 1994. I have chosen the title wanting to focus ...
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after the genocide, Rwanda is still an enigma. Its recovery in economic, social and psychological terms is hotly debated. Almost every aspect of the past and present is still argued ...
April marks the 20th anniversary of this genocide in Rwanda, three months of violence in which Hutu extremists killed as many as 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutus. Alexandre Dauge-Roth, associate ...
FORT SILL, Okla. (Nov. 9, 2017) -- His small chin and tall slender build might have gotten him killed in his hometown if he had been born just two years prior. In Rwanda, where nearly everyone is the ...