In August 1993, Rwanda and the RPF signed a deal to end years of civil war, allowing for power-sharing and the return of refugees. Habyarimana was slow in implementing the agreement, and a ...

An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of just 100 days during the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 which happened during the Rwandan civil war. Rwandan officials say mass graves ...

It has severed diplomatic relations with neighbouring Rwanda, which supports rebel Tutsi militias ... Then, when the genocide ended and the Tutsis returned to power, having won the bloody civil war, ...

In 1991, however, a reorganized RPF began a guerilla war, attacking Rwanda from bases in Uganda. In June 1992 RPF troops won a substantial foothold in Rwandan territory, and this was followed ...

He won because of his work designing disaster relief shelters in such far-flung locales as Rwanda, Turkey, India, China, Haiti, and Japan. Ban’s humanitarian focus began in the aftermath of the ...