In defeating the interim government and its army, the RPF ended the genocide. At the same time, its troops committed grave violations of international humanitarian law by attacking and killing ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the country's east, battling the national army and capturing key places as they ...

The M23 is one of the most important actors operating in the DRC territory, allegedly supported by Rwanda. While the M23’s ...

In an African country, ministers do not have official cars or residences. There, these public officials rent their own ...

January 19 always reminds me of many scholars and opponents of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) who criticize the party saying that when it overthrew the genocidal regime in 1994, the mention of ...

Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first democratic elections after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi--the West has struggled to accept his leadership, with some ...

This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which launched a civil war in 1990. The war reached its inflection point in April 1994, when an aircraft ...

Judi Rever: My research has focused on investigating crimes by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame. With that in mind, there are four main assumptions or ‘myths’ that my work, based ...

ended when the Rwandan Patriotic Front launched an offensive and seized control of the country. Though popular histories usually conclude with Rwanda’s impressive rebuilding efforts under RPF ...

The killing spree, which lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July 1994, claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.

This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), were demanding greater Tutsi representation in Rwanda's government, which at the time was dominated by politicians from the Hutu majority.