In 1994, decades of politically motivated ethnic scapegoating culminated in a wholesale slaughter of the Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, along with many Hutu moderates. Vast numbers of ordinary citizens ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East ...

Interview - In rural Rwanda, a girl's first period signals womanhood, but too often steals her education and future. This is ...

Eco-tourism could be the key to the economic future of war-ravaged Rwanda. KIGALI, Rwanda, April 29, 2008— -- Last month I was sent to Rwanda on assignment, to take a look at the health care ...

A population study establishes that orphanages are important for Rwanda's orphans mainly because of lower stigma and marginalization they faced from the community. Children in orphanages are ...

Child stunting in Rwanda is not just a matter of living standards and access to food. When there is domestic violence, ...

Gashora, RWANDA – On 10 March, Samira Aman, an Ethiopian refugee living in Rwanda, became one of the first refugees in the country to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. "I feel so privileged,” said Samira, ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Alex Nsengimana was born in Rwanda. Genocide swept through his country. He lost his family and, after fleeing gunmen, he ended up in an orphanage. "When I was 7 years old, I ...

In this Feb. 21, 2014 photo, Jean Paul Turayishimye, of Leominster, Mass., tells the story of how he survived the genocide of Rwanda when he served in the opposition forces, the Rwanda Patriotic Front ...

A woman recounts in eerily uninflected tones the slaughter of her seven children, who were hacked to death with machetes in front of her eyes. More than 800,000 Tutsis (and moderate Hutus) were killed ...