Sultani Makenga, the military leader of M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, has said it was “unacceptable” that the government hired European mercenaries in the ongoing conflict that pitted the Congolese ...

Today, Kagame is president of Rwanda, and he insists on reconciliation between the warring groups. It was an incredible ...

Opinion - For years, whenever Rwanda raises concerns about the security threats from DR Congo, critics dismiss it as paranoia or political maneuvering. Some call it an overreaction; others, in Gen Z ...

Almost all the victims are members of the Tutsi (or Watusi) tribe, usually remembered for their great height--many Tutsi are seven feet tall. The people slaughtering the Tutsi are the Hutu ...

Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were slaughtered. But when a Tutsi-led government seized power and ended the ...

They have a significant diaspora abroad and are considered the tallest people on the African continent, alongside the Tutsi ...

When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...

Administrative officials, like the prefect of the city of Kigali, ordered local people to establish barriers to catch Tutsi trying to flee and to organize search patrols to discover those trying ...

The number of people killed in Goma and its surroundings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has exceeded 8,500 since ...