Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting
Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the ...
‘Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story:’ Eugene Boateng Joins Pan-African Rwanda Genocide Drama — EFM
Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story will recount the little-known true story of the Bisesero Resistance, in which tens of thousands ...
Humanitarian catastrophe looms in east Congo as rebels push south, official says
The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a ...
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He Prayed Psalm 91 as Bullets Landed on His Roof
Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...
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Genocide: Why Court of Appeal upheld Mugimba's 25-year sentence
The Court of Appeal in Kigali on Friday, February 14. upheld a 25-year prison sentence handed to Jean-Baptiste Mugimba for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tusti. In 1994, Mugimba was the ...
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Rwanda: Global Double Standards Are Existential Threats to Tutsi in Great Lakes Region
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international community.
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Ignoring M23 Grievances Will Not Bring Peace to Congo - Rwanda Envoy to Nordic Countries
Blaming Rwanda for the security crisis in DR Congo while ignoring the suffering of Congolese communities and the grievances of M23 movement will not bring peace to the country, Dr. Diane Gashumba, ...
Boston College4y
Healing the wounds
When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Pressure intensified as Tutsi militias organized against the Hutu groups and as foreign powers began taking sides. Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal ...
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Silent Massacre
Almost all the victims are members of the Tutsi (or Watusi) tribe, usually remembered for their great height--many Tutsi are seven feet tall. The people slaughtering the Tutsi are the Hutu ...
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The DR Congo rebel leader whose fighters have created turmoil
Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age of 17 to join a Tutsi rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda. This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF ...
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The Genocide
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 ...