April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...

Nearly 25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda took the lives of up to one million victims, the offspring of Tutsi survivors, who weren't even born at the time, are among those most ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi's ruling party is purging ethnic Tutsi army officers in a campaign of repression, a human rights group says, accusing the international community of inaction amid deadly ...

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 ...

Both Democratic and Republican administrations consistently condemn Holocaust and genocide denial. It is ironic, then, that beginning with the Obama administration and continuing through Trump’s term, ...