The Hutu Power movement pushed many members of opposition parties to adopt the extreme line. On the one hand, after consultations between the PSD, MDR, and PL parties with the RPF, the MRND ...

This increased anti-Tutsi feeling in Rwanda, particularly in the ruling MRND party, which was rooted in "Hutu Power" ideology. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

The ethnic genocide by Hutu militias ended with the seizure of power by the Tutsi troops of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, led by Paul Kagame, who has now been president for 24 years. In Kigali ...

The most interesting facts about Burundi, from a man-eating crocodile called Gustave to a tragic history of genocide and war.

Thousands died; some casualties were former Hutu militants and members of armed ... responsible for winning the war and placing him in power. Kabila also began removing ethnic Tutsis from ...

A new offensive by a Rwanda-backed militia and the government’s controversial response have civilians caught in the middle.

Like many initially benign strongmen, its president, Paul Kagame, has been in power for too long and has ... he chose not to replace a Hutu tyranny with a Tutsi one. Instead, he outlawed the ...

But near the end of April, she said, hundreds of soldiers and Interahamwe — Hutu militia members — came. "They surrounded the whole swamp and killed people until the evening," she said.

Maps, although seemingly objective representations of the world, hold immense power. They shape our understanding of space, ...