As his comrades died of starvation and thirst around him, Mbale Hafashimana Amos finally decided to flee the Congolese bush ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Rwandan and Congolese groups opposed to Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s rule asked the International Criminal Court on Friday to investigate him for war crimes for allegedly backing ...

MONTREAL (AP) – A Rwandan man has been deported from Canada for allegedly helping incite Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Leon Mugesera was taken to an airport in Montreal by Canadian border-services agents ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday begged forgiveness for the “sins and failings of the church and its members” during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide as the Holy See sought to open a new phase in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities ...

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B R U S S E L S, Belgium, June 8 -- Prosecutors demanded life sentences today for four Rwandans convicted of war crimes in the African nation's 1994 genocide, while defense lawyers argued that heavy ...

African leaders used a gathering in Algiers on Sunday to revive a long-standing demand for the world to formally acknowledge colonial-era abuses, treat them as crimes under international law and ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda and France have turned over a new leaf in relations marked by a "dark history," the two countries' foreign ministers said, following a dispute over events surrounding ...

The governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda concluded a peace treaty in June 2025, aimed at ending a decades-long war in eastern DRC. The United Nations welcomed the ...

FILE - Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda and France have turned over a new leaf in relations marked by a "dark history", the two countries' foreign ministers said, following a dispute over events surrounding ...