Rwanda is holding observances to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the genocide in that East African nation that took one million lives. Rwanda has won praise for rebuilding efforts, but democratic ...

Although critics like to believe otherwise, the country is not choosing sides in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

(Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in Rwanda and abroad, to warn about the ...

FILE – A boy who survived a massacre in the village of Karubamba in April and whose leg was wounded by a machete, rests on his crutches at a hospital near Gahini, in Rwanda, May 13, 1994. The ...

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 ...

The violence broke out after a plane carrying then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was downed by two surface-to-air missiles over Kigali at night, killing the president, his Burundian ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, background left and his wife, first lady Jeannette Kagame prepare to lay a wreath, during a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, held at the ...

NYAMATA, Rwanda — Rachel Mukantabana was a teenager when the devastating genocide in Rwanda unfolded. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what was happening," she told NPR. "Even a five-year-old ...

Notre Dame's annual Catholic speaker series hosted author Immaculée Ilibagiza, a Rwandan genocide survivor, who described her introductions to apparitions of Mary and how she found resilience and ...

The fighting in Congo continues despite Washington’s claims to have brokered an end to the conflict. By Saikou Jammeh and Ruth Maclean Faustin Nsabumukunzi lived quietly in New York. In his home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Skulls of people who died during the 1994 Rwandan genocide are arranged and locked outside the St. Pierre Catholic ...

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since more than ...