The Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) stopped the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi by launching a strategic military campaign against the genocidal regime on April 7, 1994. RPF troops advanced from the east ...

For many young Rwandans, Liberation Day is as much about the future as the past.

Fidel Castro said, in 1961, that: “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past”. The Liberation Day celebrated in Rwanda on July 4 symbolizes the same truth because it was ...

On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying Rwanda's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, as well as his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, the Rwandan capital ...

Rwanda's governing RPF party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, securing 76 per cent of the vote. The party of President Paul Kagame, which came to power after the genocide of ...

In a few days, more than 9 million voters in Rwanda will vote to elect a president and all 80 members of the parliament’s lower house. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) seems to be everywhere as this ...

(Reuters) - Following are some details about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 that killed more than 1 million people. Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. * In 1990, rebels of the ...

A visionary hero who ended the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and brought peace to a traumatised country, or a despot who rules through fear and repression. The only leader most Rwandans have known, veteran ...

The Central African nation remembers the end of a murderous campaign against ethnic Tutsis that killed hundreds of thousands of people. By Zane Irwin As the United States celebrates 250 years of ...

A German-Rwandan national has been arrested on suspicion of complicity in murders during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. He is thought to have been personally involved in the killing of one victim.German ...

(Reuters) - Police in Paris have arrested Rwanda's most wanted man, Felicien Kabuga, an alleged architect of the genocide that killed about 800,000 people more than 25 years ago. Here are some details ...