Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

In the previous article in this series, we saw the pros and cons of the election process and the road to independence. In this article, the culmination of independence and the new dispensation will be ...

(SOUNDBITE OF WATER LAPPING) KATE BARTLETT, BYLINE: The Serena Hotel ... in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which nearly 1 million mainly Tutsis were killed by Hutu extremists.

Rwanda shapes conflict in the region by using the Congolese Tutsi to centre its claims of a continued threat of genocide. Rwanda is touted as one of the leading nations when it comes to strides ...

Fr. Uwineza’s home and all his family’s belongings were burned during the genocide, when Rwanda’s Hutu-led government killed approximately one million Tutsi in the span of three months. Fr. Uwineza’s ...

rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda. The RPF's success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to speed up political ...

The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...

Among those armed forced – it has long been claimed by Rwanda – there are Hutus who were involved in the killing of Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. In April 1994 hardline Hutu ...

The M23 rebels have seized an eastern town in Congo amid intense clashes that have displaced nearly 250,000 people beginning earlier this month. Videos on social media showed members of the rebel ...

Rwandan-backed rebels declare they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma, as their troops continue to claim more territory in the mineral rich region.