In 1990, Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded Rwanda from Uganda, leading to a violence outbreak. An agreement was signed in 1993 in Tanzania calling for the creation of a broad-based transition ...

The Rwandan Genocide was one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. After decades of unrest between Rwanda’s two biggest tribes, the Tutsi’s and the Hutu’s, civil war finally broke out ...

Prosecutors said Nsabumukunzi assured Tutsis at public meetings that they would be protected. But in private conversations with members of the Hutu tribe, Nsabumukunzi urged others to kill Tutsis.

In 1925, they supported the Tutsi tribe as rulers of these areas—a tribe with a historically more recent presence compared to the older Hutu tribe. The Tutsi migrated from Ethiopia, while the Hutu ...

In just 100 days more than three-quarters of a million people, mainly from the minority Tutsi tribe, were slaughtered by members of the majority Hutu tribe, primed by an extremist political ...

Tutsis, Hutus and other ethnic groups lived in the Rwandan kingdom and had done so since at least the 19th Century. But when colonial powers drew up arbitrary borders in Africa, the kingdom was ...

“These Rwandan-speaking (Hutu) populations, placed on the side of the Congo Free State in 1885 by colonial borders, are Congolese and should not be called Rwandophones, a term that has no ...

One prominent example is the post-1993 return of Hutu migrants in Burundi, whose land disputes with the Tutsi population escalated into full-scale ethnic conflict in subsequent years.