They perpetrated a one-sided propaganda. The November 1959 violence showed “Hutu people’s” discontent against Tutsi “colonialism”. It gave the “Hutu masses” a common view and a level ...

Meanwhile, Tutsi refugees began arriving in DR Congo, fleeing waves of ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi. Both countries have long been dominated by their Tutsi minorities, leading to tensions ...

Analysts warn that continued instability risks deepening the regional conflict and several peacekeepers from the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, have already been killed since the ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed ... Zaire with the help of other African states (most significantly ...

Boateng joins Tracy Kababiito (African Folktales ... Between 500,000 to 800,000 people belonging to the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa were killed by armed ...

M23 fighters raided CBCA Ndosho Hospital and Heal Africa Hospital ... against ethnic Hutu-led militias bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda. About 7,000 people have been ...

In January, former South African president Nelson Mandela assumed ... of the Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People (PALIPEHUTU), later refused to join the talks, even at Mandela's urging.

But when colonial powers drew up arbitrary borders in Africa ... the Hutu majority. Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 people ...