The international community is scrambling to organize a summit to prevent a resumption of the fighting in Congo that has displaced a quarter-million people in recent weeks. But the conflict will be ...

The Hague (AFP) – Rwanda has asked the Netherlands to extradite a suspected Rwandan Hutu militia leader for his role in the central African nation's 1994 genocide, a Dutch justice official said on ...

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 ...

Militants from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) stand near a pile of weapons after their surrender in Kateku, a small town in eastern region of the Democratic Republic of ...

An attack by an ethnic Hutu militia on a village in eastern Congo has left at least 90 people dead, a United Nations official said Thursday. At least 60 of the victims of the attack by the Democratic ...

FRANCE 24: Who is the FDLR and why have they been attacking civilians? Anneka Van Woudenberg: The Rwandan Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) are Rwandan Hutu militias who have been ...

The massacre of over 160 Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi has once again brought to the fore the ethnic problem in Africa's Great Lakes Region. The Burundi Hutu rebel ...

Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow to ...

A Swedish citizen of Rwandan origin was sentenced to life in prison Thursday by a court in Stockholm after he was tried and convicted for his role in the country’s genocide nearly 20 years ago. He is ...

Burundi has elected Hutu hardliner, Jean Minani, the speaker of its new Transitional Assembly. The Frodebu party leader secured 115 votes from among the 169 MPs. Dr Jean Minani, the leader of the main ...