On June 27, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed a US-mediated peace accord in Washington, D.C., to end decades ...

Burundi is urging the United Nations to officially recognize the mass killings of Hutus in 1972–1973 as a genocide, over five ...

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

The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and ...

A Swedish citizen of Rwandan origin was sentenced to life in prison after he was tried and convicted for his role in the country’s genocide nearly 20 years ago.

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

There's no more Hutu, no more Tutsi — we are all Rwandan." All Rwandan, all now living under the shadow of a brutal history that pitted neighbor against neighbor.

Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow ...

Dusabimana is a Hutu and she was a helper. She risked her life, and the life of her family, to help Tutsi men, women and children escape the country, as hundreds of thousands were killed in a ...

My main focus was on East Africa. I have no Hutu samples, but I do have Luhya from the HapMap. They are a Bantu group from western Kenya, and so presumably relatively good proxies for the Hutu. In the ...

During that stay, Rwanda’s Hutu government would not renew his passport, so he remained in the States through the civil war and genocide, finally conceding to the inevitable in the summer of ...