Former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, who has just been sentenced to 15 years in prison, is regarded by many as a symbol of reconciliation in the country. An ethnic Hutu, he was appointed to the ...

The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu elite and Belgian colonialists. The contention that the masses follow whatever moves expresses what happened in Rwanda.

The nuns' soft voices are about the only sound that breaks the silence at the Benedictine abbey of Maredret, a haven of religious solitude deep in the Ardennes forest of southern Belgium.

Power changed between these two ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi. Up to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Hutu were in control of the Rwandan state and the Tutsi of the Burundian state.

Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow ...

The international community is scrambling to organize a summit to prevent a resumption of the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has displaced a quarter-million people in recent ...

Nairobi, Kenya Police in Burundi over the weekend released three students who had been arrested last week during tightened security at the University of Burundi, where Hutu students had been ...

Many people were born of rape during the 100 days of violence and to this day still face societal stigma for how they were conceived.

Rest of World News: Rwandans will on Sunday mark 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart their country, as neighbours turned on each other in ...

A Congolese Hutu man in Goma, who asked to remain anonymous, tells the BBC how he lost his parents and why the report holds such importance for him. His story At the end of 1996 I was 14 years old ...

About 160,000 people in northeastern Congo displaced since January are at risk of attack from Hutu militia, said spokesman Ron Redmond. The seeds of the conflict date from the end of the Rwanda ...