For four years, Makenga and the RPF fought the Hutu-dominated army in Rwanda. Their battle was enmeshed with the 1994 genocide, when Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

It says it is defending itself against Hutu militias which it accuses of fighting ... announced the launch of a solidarity fund for the army that allows citizens, companies and organisations ...

After Ndadaye’s assassination, Hutu armed groups, sometimes under the orders of local administrative or political leaders, slaughtered thousands of Tutsi; the Tutsi-dominated army massacred ...

In 1972, in the worse such case, the Tutsi-dominated army massacred as many as 200,000 Hutu following several Hutu attacks on Tutsi. In 1993, Maj. Pierre Buyoya, in power after a military coup ...

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, four sources said on Tuesday, in a further blow to Congo's army as it ...

Kagame instilled strict discipline in his growing rebel army. They would launch successful attacks that eventually brought the ruling Hutu government to sign a power-sharing agreement in 1993 ...

He is celebrated at home for having helped end the genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the army and Hutu extremist militias. "James is very disciplined, never ...

Congo Army Runaways Loot and Sow Panic in North Kivu ... It says it is defending itself against Hutu militias which it accuses of fighting alongside the Congolese military. Congo rejects this ...