April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...

April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, that ...

Growing up in Kigali, Rwanda, we were the only Tutsi family on the street. I was the youngest of six children and we had a pretty decent life. My mom owned her own business and my dad worked for the ...

Lasting only 100 days, though many acknowledge it continued much longer, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people in Rwanda is one of the most heinous genocides and mass murders in modern history.

Scientists have taken a significant step in providing the people of Rwanda the scientific tools they need to help address mental health issues that stemmed from the 1994 genocides of the Tutsi ethnic ...

For those of you who may not be aware, in Kinyarwanda – the national language of Rwanda – the word “Kwibuka” means “to remember”. The importance of remembering is why “Kwibuka” has become the official ...

The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...

Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Pascal ...

12 September 2024 – The statue “Kwibuka Flame of Hope”, a gift from the Republic of Rwanda, was installed on 11 September in the north garden area at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The ...

BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going somewhere, ...

In the last piece in the series, we realised that rather than addressing the socio-economic issues inherited from the colonialists and the First Republic, the new regime continued dividing Rwandans by ...

Leaders and academic scholars from around the world gathered for the sixth International Conference on Genocide at Sacramento State last week, examining root causes and lasting impacts to ensure such ...