Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.

The International Criminal Court (ICC), whichw was created in 2002, was intended to provide impartial justice for the most ...

Epiphanie Gashugi, a veteran member of Imitari, a traditional all-female dance troupe founded in Belgium in 1978 recalls how a group originally formed to preserve culture and foster unity among young ...

Mary Barikungeri was just six years old when persecution against the Tutsi erupted in Rwanda in 1959. Her family, like thousands of others, fled the violence—first to Uganda, then across other borders ...

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 ...

Rwanda had been a German colony since 1885, but the Belgians drove them out in 1916 during the First World War, and in 1924, the League of Nations officially gave Belgium a mandate over Ruanda-Urundi ...

A new peace agreement offers hope of quelling hostilities between Kinshasa and Kigali in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Pictures 38 PhotosApril 4, 20146:26 PM PDT The Rwanda genocide Scenes from the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, which began twenty years ago this week.