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 ...

Militants from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) stand near a pile of weapons after their surrender in Kateku, a small town in eastern region of the Democratic Republic of ...

Rwanda has warned it will launch an attack "very soon" on Rwandan Hutu rebels sheltering in eastern Congo, the U.N. mission said, relaying a threat that raised fears of renewal of one of Africa's most ...

The Hague (AFP) – Rwanda has asked the Netherlands to extradite a suspected Rwandan Hutu militia leader for his role in the central African nation's 1994 genocide, a Dutch justice official said on ...

Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death two weeks ...

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 ...

2001-06-06 04:00:00 PDT Brussels, Belgium-- Sister Gertrude, once a mother superior, has been in court for seven weeks, listening to grim details about murder in the convent. She has barely moved ...

Nine-months pregnant and hiding under a bed, soaked in blood from her murdered relatives, Denise Uwimana’s waters broke. She had no safe place to give birth. Her eldest son whispered, “Mama, is this ...

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