Rwanda marks July 4 as Liberation Day. It is a day of earnest celebration, of memory, of national rebirth. It commemorates the day the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)—an armed wing of the Rwandan ...

The management and members of staff of The New Times visited the Ntarama Genocide Memorial in Bugesera District on Wednesday, July 2, as part of the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

"I was actually not coming here." Rusesabagina, a Hutu, became famous after the Hollywood film in which he is credited with saving the lives of more than 1 200 people as they sheltered in the hotel he ...

In 2005, the year after the release of "Hotel Rwanda," President George W. Bush presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for saving 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees during the slaughter ...

Who is Rusesabagina? During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, around 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic minority, were killed by the Hutu ethnic majority.

More than 1,200 people took shelter in the Hotel des Mille Collines during what is often described as the darkest chapter of Rwanda's history. Rusesabagina, who is of both Hutu and Tutsi descent ...

FILE – In this Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving people from genocide, wears a pink prison uniform as he arrives for a ...

Rusesabagina, whose story was the subject of the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” is credited with saving more than 1,000 lives during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.