Your story in this week’s issue, “Cattle Praise Song,” begins with a long tribute to the central role that cows used to play in Tutsi culture in Rwanda. Was this a culture you experienced as a child?

Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was ...

Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death two weeks ...

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, that ...

Kwibuka means "remember" in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda's language. It describes the annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The people of Rwanda are working together for a brighter ...

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A woman consoles Bizimana Emmanuel, 22, during the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1994 genocide at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, April 7, 2014. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images UPDATE: 10 p.m ...

2001-06-06 04:00:00 PDT Brussels, Belgium-- Sister Gertrude, once a mother superior, has been in court for seven weeks, listening to grim details about murder in the convent. She has barely moved ...

The massacre of over 160 Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi has once again brought to the fore the ethnic problem in Africa's Great Lakes Region. The Burundi Hutu rebel ...

There are no pictures of Rwanda in his office. No reminders of his childhood. No photos of sisters or uncles or other extended family. The Hutus who killed Alexandre Kimenyi's relatives made sure they ...