The violence broke out after a plane carrying then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was downed by two surface-to-air missiles over Kigali at night, killing the president, his Burundian ...

NYAMATA, Rwanda — Rachel Mukantabana was a teenager when the devastating genocide in Rwanda unfolded. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what was happening," she told NPR. "Even a five-year-old ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame attends a commemoration ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2024. Something is happening in Rwanda right now that is ...

(Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in Rwanda and abroad, to warn about the ...

It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide began in 1994. In some places today, survivors of the genocide live side-by-side with perpetrators, so-called reconciliation villages. And I'm Juana ...

April 7 marks thirty years since the Rwandan genocide, in which a radical faction from the majority Hutu ethnic group launched a campaign to eradicate the ethnic Tutsi minority and other opponents, ...

Félicien Kabuga was one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the 1994 genocide, accused of encouraging and financing the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority.

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since more than ...