To self-proclaimed experts in Rwanda’s history, this may sound fictional, but within Rwanda’s own traditions, these symbols formed the spiritual foundation of kingship. When Gihanga entrusted ...

From April to July 1994, the world watched as genocide unfolded in Rwanda. A million people died as neighbors brutally attacked their neighbors with clubs and machetes. Thirty years later, the horror ...

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 ...

This small but spectacular East African country is one of the continent’s most extraordinary wildlife destinations.

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Rwanda is often discussed together with Burundi and eastern DR Congo as if all three share the same history and the same problems. This regional shorthand is misleading. While these societies were ...