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 ...

April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...

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 ...

Nine-months pregnant and hiding under a bed, soaked in blood from her murdered relatives, Denise Uwimana’s waters broke. She had no safe place to give birth. Her eldest son whispered, “Mama, is this ...

The slaughter began with eerie precision. On April 6, 1994--five years ago this week--the Rwandan president's plane was shot down over the capital, Kigali. The killers of Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, ...

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

When Sr. Mary Rose Mukukibogo first approached women in Gisagara, southern Rwanda, about starting an agricultural association, they were furious. It was 1997, three years after the 100-day genocide in ...

MWESO, Congo – The wobbly white tarp tents once constructed for people fleeing a violent Rwandan Hutu rebel group have gradually been replaced by more solid huts of branches, banana leaves and mud.

It would be confusing, unfair, and overly presumptuous for anyone to say that he or she clearly understands the Rwandan genocide that began in April of 1994. I have chosen the title wanting to focus ...

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "Following the advance of the M23/AFC, around one and a half million displaced people camped around Goma, relying solely on the help of people of goodwill. This is what ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Friday it was ready to launch military operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels in its east after most missed a deadline to disarm ...