GITARAMA, Rwanda (dpa) – The long-term effects of Rwanda’s genocide can still be seen in Gitarama, where children head an unprecedented number of households. According to UNICEF, 85,000 Rwandan ...

A million people were ruthlessly murdered in Rwanda over three months starting on April 7, 1994. This happened in a fairly limited area but a generation later, Rwanda is one of Africa's most peaceful ...

SOUTHERN PROVINCE Thousands of orphans and street children in Gitarama spent a week long paying tribute to the late Margrit Fuchs, a Swiss national who supported vulnerable people in former Gitarama ...

John Kabango Rucyahana stood facing a crowd of killers in a prison yard at Gitarama, Rwanda. Years earlier, during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Gitarama’s Hutu inmates would have hacked or clubbed to ...

Kigali — The next time you're sitting on a toilet, consider that you are about to flush away a valuable source of energy. Students like Gilbert Twizere at ETO Gitarama Secondary School made sure they ...

Gitarama — Residents are again to benefit from 250,000 euros (about Frw 170 millions), donated by Frandre Orientare, a Belgian province, to support developmental activities in different districts of ...

GITARAMA, Rwanda -- Augustin Mbwabahatse is an illiterate Hutu peasant farmer. The father of eight is also about to become a judge, deciding the fate of some of the thousands of genocide suspects ...

GITARAMA, Rwanda (CNN)-- What does Macy's have to do with healing from genocide? Nothing and everything. Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly ...

GITARAMA, RWANDA - The limp of a crippled old man, the scars on a young woman’s face – the awful reminders are everywhere as Rwanda struggles to move away from its genocidal past by holding its first ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania – Former Rwandan government minister Callixte Nzabonimana, described by prosecutors as "the Butcher of Gitarama", went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal ...

Open-air courts bring justice to Rwandan killers Villagers are using a traditional African method of settling disputes to deal with a backlog of 120,000 genocide cases, reports Jane Flanagan from ...