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Rwanda’s genocide began on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu President Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down. The two died. Hutu...
After more than 20 years, the search for the last major Rwandan fugitive indicted by a war crimes court for his role in the 1994 genocide has come to an end. A recently exhumed grave in Zimbabwe confirms...
To fully confront its role in the Rwandan genocide and improve its relations with the East African country, France has for the first time made public its archive related to the genocide. About 8,000 archive...
After 25 years on the run, Rwanda genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga has been arrested near Paris, according to the French justice ministry. The 84-year-old was arrested by French security forces...
According to local news from Rwanda, four mass graves, reportedly tied to the country’s 1994 genocide, have been unearthed in the country. The sites are outside the capital Kigali, in the Gasabo...
Ncuti Gatwa, 29, is a Rwandan-Scottish actor famous for his role in Netflix’s Sex Education series where he plays the role of Eric Effiong. Gatwa has now landed British television’s most iconic...
“She has stolen the highly prized status of U.S. citizenship.” “The defendant was not a mere spectator; the defendant personally participated in the killing of men, women and children,...
A report compiled by a group of French historians commissioned by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has concluded that the country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda was that it turned...
A former Rwandan politician has been found guilty of masterminding the massacre of tens of thousands of Rwandans during the country’s ghastly 1994 genocide. The former mayor of Nyakizu in southern...
Since 2013 when they became the latest addition to tourism sites in Rwanda, they have become a huge tourist attraction, drawing in huge numbers of foreign travellers and investors. These giant caves, known...
A Rwandan man was on Monday sentenced to more than eight years in prison for lying about his involvement in the East African country’s 1994 genocide in order to gain asylum in the U.S. Jean Leonard...
For the first time in 20 years since it was established, the first Holocaust Center located in Cape Town, South Africa, has incorporated a universal message on genocide. The Center, which serves as a remembrance...
During the Genocide, a group of heavily armed Hutu militia encircled the home of a widow, Zura Karuhimbi, asking her to hand over those she was shielding inside, she had no weapon to defend herself. But...
Rwanda marked 25 years since the start of the 1994 Genocide that lasted 100 days and claimed the lives of over 800,000 Tutsis. The country has from April 7 been in a state of mourning for 100 days in honour...
At least 800,000 people – ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus – were killed in 100 days by Hutu militias during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. More than two million refugees fled Rwanda, generating...
Remains of over 62,000 victims of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide recovered from areas around Kabuga, a town in the Eastern Province in 2018 will be laid to rest later this month at Nyanza Genocide Memorial....
One cannot discuss the role of Rwandan media in the 1994 Genocide without mentioning Kangura, a newspaper founded in the 1990s, which propagated hatred and incited violence against Tutsis. Hassan Ngeze,...
Claire Karekezi fled the mass killings in Rwanda with her family at the age of 10. When she returns from Canada in July this year, she will become Rwanda’s first female neurosurgeon. “We grew...
Rwanda’s economy is obviously one of the fastest growing economies in the whole of Africa. Nicknamed the ‘Singapore of Africa’, Rwanda emerged from the ashes of economic despondency and...
Today marks 24 years since the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. The United Nations set aside the day to not only commemorate the event but also honour the victims. Referred to as the Day of Remembrance...
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