Colonial scholars documented that the name "Rwanda" derives from the Ikinyarwanda verb ku-aanda, meaning "to expand" or "to spread out." According to this interpretation, it reflected a nation driven ...

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...

Félicien Kabuga was one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the 1994 genocide, accused of encouraging and ...

As the French investigation into Agathe Habyarimana, widow of Rwanda's former president Juvénal Habyarimana, for complicity ...

The historical root of the “Tutsi-as-invaders” narrative - the claim of a regional plot to establish a Tutsi-Hima empire over Bantu-Hutu populations - lies in the Hamitic hypothesis, reinforced by ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- More than 1,500 Rwandan troops have crossed into eastern Congo, joining Congolese forces in an effort to oust the Hutu rebels who participated in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, officials ...

The Hutu ethnic group's revolution against Tutsi rule in the country forced Kigeli V into exile after a year in power.