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 ...

Writer-director Terry George, in Washington this past November to promote Hotel Rwanda, confessed that when he read co-writer Keir Pearson’s initial script, he felt that the politics threatened to ...

If you’ve never been to Rwanda, the only thing you might know about the country is that there are two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. That’s really what the country boils down to, right?

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Villagers hid in a church in Rukara, Rwanda, in April 1994. Hutu militia surrounded the church and launched a series of attacks that lasted for days, killing hundreds. Hussein Longolongo killed seven ...

President Juvenal Habyarimana, nearing the end of two decades in power, was losing popularity among Rwandans when the RPF attacked from Uganda on October 1, 1990. At first Habyarimana did not see the ...

The extremist CDR party and the Hutu Power movement actively derailed the peaceful political transition in Rwanda by violently opposing the power-sharing provisions of the 1993 Arusha Accords. They ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a predominantly Tutsi armed group, took over Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city – and soon after, the country’s governance. This victory occurred amid a ...

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 ...

BEFORE the massacre, anonymous leaflets were circulated, calling for Tutsis to be killed. Then, on the night of August 13th, armed marauders overran the Gatumba camp. With guns and machetes, they shot ...