Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...

"You'd think he should be bitter and angry," says Jenna Bush Hager, one of Gilbert Tuhabonye's former runners. "But he channeled that through running and teaching. To me, he embodied pure love and ...

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 ...

Burundi’s dominant ethnic Tutsi party on Thursday asked President Dominitien Ndayizeye to name an ally of a former military ruler as the new vice-president in line with the country’s fragile ...

A soldier from the armed forces of the DRC on foot patrol in the village of Manzalaho near Beni. Alexis Huguet / AFP via Getty Images For this reason, I set out to rethink the ongoing conflict in ...

Police in Burundi over the weekend released three students who had been arrested last week during tightened security at the University of Burundi, where Hutu students had been fleeing in fear of ...

Burundi’s main Tutsi party said on Thursday it had rejected a proposed deal to share power with Hutus, despite claims by South African mediators that they had achieved a general agreement in Burundi’s ...

MURIZA, Burundi, October 2 (UNHCR) - A few years ago, Zita and Eusébie might have regarded each other as mortal enemies, but today they are learning to live together - and liking it. The two women, ...