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KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...

For those of you who may not be aware, in Kinyarwanda – the national language of Rwanda – the word “Kwibuka” means “to remember”. The importance of remembering is why “Kwibuka” has become the official ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...

As Rwanda marked 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, on Monday, April 7, the Rwandan community in Nigeria in Abuja joined their compatriots to honour more than one million lives ...

The United Nations will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda with events under the theme “Remember. Unite. Renew.”. The events remember the victims and honour the ...

In a mere 100 days, an estimated one million people were brutally murdered in a campaign of mass slaughter that still horrifies a generation later. In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was scarred by ...

Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Kenya Martin Ngoga and other government officials during the 31st commemoration of the Rwanda genocide. [File Courtesy] The United Nations now says the 1994 genocide ...

Michel Bussi's Les Ombres du monde - The Shadows of the World, in English - published in France last month, is an unexpected novel. Bussi tackles the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda by using ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's genocide. Leaders of the country's Hutu majority encouraged the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi minority. People killed their ...

FILE – A boy who survived a massacre in the village of Karubamba in April and whose leg was wounded by a machete, rests on his crutches at a hospital near Gahini, in Rwanda, May 13, 1994. The ...