Rather than two separate tribes, Hutu and Tutsi are different ethnic groups of the same society. The Tutsi migrated from the Horn of Africa in the area of Ethiopia to the Lake Victoria region of ...

A witness in the "Media Trial" today told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that the Hutu and the Tutsi should not be considered only as tribes but as social classes.

The nation’s Tutsi president handed power to a leader from the Hutu tribe in a power-sharing arrangement designed to end bloodshed. President Pierre Buyoya stepped down for Vice President ...

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) warned in a Facebook post on Thursday that a national gun registry would be similar to a database used by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda in the 1990s to locate and ...

In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with ...

The ritual pays respects and condolences not only to the Tutsi people lost, but to the Hutu as well. The last time Gato saw the ritual was in 2005, before he left to come to the United States.

BURUNDI'S president has warned his country is on the brink of collapse, blaming Hutu ``fanatics'', the Tutsi minority and the army for widespread… ...

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 dea… ...