You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) – Burundians lined up before dawn Monday to vote on ...

For decades, the French supported the Hutu regime even when it became Nazi-like in its racial nationalism. It may be difficult for Americans to comprehend such imperialistic motivations, but the main ...

This violence destroyed the fragile alliance between the RPF and Hutu groups opposed to Habyarimana’s government. Appealing to Hutu youth enraged over these atrocities, the government-operated Radio ...

Linda Melvern is the author of "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide." In the course of a few terrible months in 1994, up to 1 million people were killed in Rwanda in a ...

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 ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Hutu extremists shot down the plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination marked the start of the 100-day genocide in 1994, a government report said on ...

Burundi's president sealed a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the nation's eight-year civil war, just hours after Tutsi soldiers opposed to the deal mutinied Monday and kidnapped the army chief. The ...

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 death of President Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 provided a profound catalyst for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It created an environment in which extremist Hutu leaders exploited ...