An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

Burundi’s call adds to broader efforts in the region to reckon with past atrocities and seek international acknowledgment for ...

In a hilltop village in Rwanda, residents watch intently as a small troupe of actors perform a play adapted from a ...

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

This was Burundi’s first genocide. The problems and tensions that precipitated Burundi’s 1972 slaughter haven’t disappeared Now, some 45 years later, the problems that precipitated the slaughter – ...

More than 136,000 people have fled escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since January, ...

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 ...

Burundi is urging the United Nations to officially recognize the mass killings of Hutus in 1972–1973 as a genocide, over five decades after the violence claimed tens of thousands of lives.

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 growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC. The paper interviewed ...