It's been 20 years today since a small East African country descended into turmoil after the death of its president, and I'm not talking about Rwanda. A year before the genocide in that county, the ...

If you talk to members of Gilbert Tuhabonye's running club in Austin, Texas, they'll tell you about his broad smile or easy laughter, or the way he can turn a 5:30 a.m. training session into a dance ...

Conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa rarely makes headlines. For thirty years, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has suffered violent episodes driven by the world's hunger for minerals.

The submission echoed concerns articulated by several informed observers, including the U.N.'s Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the International Crisis Group, which ...

BUJUMBURA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Burundi's ex-President Pierre Buyoya said on Wednesday he had resigned his position as an African Union envoy after his conviction and life sentence last month for the ...

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"We must stop this descent into hell," said FIDH president Dimitris Christopoulos. "Let us act before it is too late." Burundis brutal regime has set the small central African country on a "descent ...

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a widely documented atrocity, but it is important to note that in 1972, a significant number of people in neighboring Burundi were brutally killed in a largely ...

PARIS — "It felt like an injustice to me,” said the rapper and novelist Gaël Faye, about having to leave civil-war-torn Burundi in 1995 to come live in France. Faye, who was 13 at the time, had to ...