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It's been 20 years today since a small East African country descended into turmoil after the death of its president, and I'm not talking about Rwanda. A year before the genocide in that county, the ...

Some 800,000 people, most of them Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were massacred before rebel forces led by Kagame ended the genocide in Rwanda. Burundi is about 85 percent Hutu and 14 percent Tutsi.

For several years, Burundi has been militarily involved in the crisis in eastern DR Congo. It operates alongside the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), FDLR – a Kinshasa-backed terrorist group formed by ...

The RED-Tabara armed group, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has renewed attacks in Burundi since late 2023. The group – which is an abbreviation of the French Résistance pour un État ...

Survivors and relatives of victims of a 2004 massacre of Tutsi refugees in Burundi have filed legal cases claiming genocide and crimes against humanity, their lawyer told AFP on Thursday. The Barron's ...

PARIS — "It felt like an injustice to me,” said the rapper and novelist Gaël Faye, about having to leave civil-war-torn Burundi in 1995 to come live in France. Faye, who was 13 at the time, had to ...

During the 32nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, remembrance flames were lit in New York, Washington, and Michigan. Condolences arrived from Israel, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, ...

Scholars on genocide often refer to the “path” of genocide to explain the structural stages and processes that transform social, ethnic, or religious tensions into systematic mass murder. ALSO READ: ...