The genocide killed an estimated 800,000 Rwandans and sent more than 2 million Rwandans fleeing into neighbouring countries, mainly Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC) and Tanzania.

In this Friday, April 4, 2014, file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church, are laid out on shelves in an underground vault as a ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday's presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely ...

President Paul Kagame has described the first permanent memorial for victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in France as a powerful symbol that preserves historical truth and safeguards memory ...

Isaiah Manirakiza, 20, was born into a Catholic family, but upon learning about the genocide, he secretly switched to Islam while in secondary school. His parents, who are not very religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, predominantly against ethnic Tutsis, siblings Jean-Leonard “Kaka” Kagabo and ...

Neil Edwards is the volunteer intern for CFR’s Africa Program in Washington, DC. He is a master’s candidate at the School of International Service at American University and a returned Peace Corps ...

For those who see no social value in soap operas, stay tuned. A field experiment directed by Harvard University psychologist Elizabeth Levy Paluck finds that a reconciliation-themed radio soap opera ...

Brian Inganga / AP Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country ...

A red marks the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo by SIMON ...

President Paul Kagame has described the first permanent memorial for victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in France as a powerful symbol that preserves historical truth and safeguards memory ...