The genocide killed an estimated 800,000 Rwandans and sent more than 2 million Rwandans fleeing into neighbouring countries, mainly Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC) and Tanzania.

Burundi's internal affairs minister on Thursday announced the country was suspending diplomatic ties with Rwanda, closing their border and deporting Rwandan citizens, claiming it was a response to its ...

“Rwandans say that they don’t want their bodies to be touched by a blind person, that it can be a sign of bad luck.” On a chilly morning, Beth Gatonye loaded two vibrating chairs into her van and ...

How a once shattered country has become a beacon of hope for the rest of Africa THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Tuesday, ...

Brian Inganga / AP Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, background left and his wife, first lady Jeannette Kagame prepare to lay a wreath, during a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, held at the ...

Decades after a genocide that killed nearly 1 million Rwandans, NPR visits a church that was the site of a massacre where 7,000 people were killed, and talk to one man who perpetrated crimes there.

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandans have begun a solemn commemoration of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu who tried to protect them were killed. President Paul Kagame on ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 28 June 2013 In October 2009, UNHCR ...

Despite Kagame's success in delivering economic and social change, rights groups accuse the government of stifling the media and political opposition, a charge it denies. Kagame would be able to run ...

KINSHASA, June 29 (Reuters) - Life in Kinshasa was going well for Zawadi, a mother of two from Rwanda, until faraway fighting stoked Congolese anger against her country and videos of men with machetes ...