Throughout this month, The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history.The Bahutu Manifesto, drafted by nine Rwandan Hutu ...

April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...

Nearly 25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda took the lives of up to one million victims, the offspring of Tutsi survivors, who weren't even born at the time, are among those most ...

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 ...

Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...

From 1959 to the genocide the Hutu leaders, put in place by the Belgian rule in a last ditch attempt to maintain their presence in Rwanda, implemented a policy of establishing a Hutu power without the ...

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 ...

One of the hard things to tell about the ongoing conflict in Eastern Congo is whether it is an ethnic war or a mercantile battle for resources. The Tutsis, an ethnic minority in Congo, have been at ...

Nyarubuye sector in Kirehe District, bordering Tanzania and Ngoma District in the former Kibungo, is today defined by its rolling hills, Lake Nasho, and a quiet rural life. But beneath this landscape ...

It's hard to tell whether the ongoing conflict in Eastern Congo is a battle between rival ethnic groups, or a fight for resources. There are so many militant groups in Eastern Congo with so many ...