It’s one of several attempts to end the deadly conflict in the troubled eastern DRC. Will it work where others failed?

Burundi’s call adds to broader efforts in the region to reckon with past atrocities and seek international acknowledgment for ...

In the polls in which key opposition figures, including Agathon Rwasa of the National Freedom Council (CNL) were sidelined, ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

When you read Jan Vansina's books on Rwanda--such as Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom and Le Rwanda Ancien: Le Royaume Nyiginya--you are left wondering why he exerted so much effort ...

The horror was triggered after Hutu extremists blamed Tutsi rebels for the downing of a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira.

Burundi's ruling party – which has been in power since 2005 – won all the seats in the 5 June legislative elections the country's electoral commission announced, as government opponents decried ...

FDD, won every seat in the country's parliamentary elections, the electoral commission said Wednesday. Opposition parties ...

Hutu extremists in Burundi believe Rwanda is dominated by supremacist ethnic Tutsis and that Rwanda won’t rest until there is a Tutsi regime in Burundi. In Rwanda, the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front ...

Burundi's main Tutsi party has accused the ... African nation is struggling to recover from a civil war sparked by the 1993 assassination of the country's first Hutu president in a failed ...