Clinton's African Peace Pilgrimage Stymied. At Last Minute, Burundi Rivals Reject Full Accord. ... But Burundi's Tutsi-led government and several hard-line Tutsi parties balked at the deal framed ...

Rwanda’s Tutsi minority has been in power for 30 years ... despite a concentration of power in the hands of a Tutsi elite, Hutu respondents experienced improved political representation over time.

To understand the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, we must examine the colonial roots, including the overlooked contributions of German coloniser Dr. Richard Kandt. While Belgium’s divide-and ...

Before the genocide, the 1991 census pegged the Tutsi population at 657,000, or 8.4 percent, (although some allege without proof that Habyarimana’s government undercounted Tutsis to limit their ...

In other words, despite a concentration of power in the hands of a Tutsi elite, Hutu respondents experienced improved political representation over time. This finding can come across as puzzling.

Ethnic Tutsis dominate the top echelons of Mr. Kagame’s government, while the Hutus who make up 85 percent of the population remain excluded from true power, critics say.

Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...

Anti-Tutsi propaganda was everywhere in the early 1990s, deepening Hutu’s suspicions of their Tutsi neighbors. ... under the control of an elite Tutsi political class.

While the RPF says it has introduced stability and multi-party democracy, its critics claim it has centralized power within a Tutsi elite and crushed potential opponents - by accusing them of ...

Analysis - The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ways fuelled violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past 30 years. At the centre of these ...

Yet Mr Kagame’s ambitions have never been limited by his country’s borders. In the 1980s he and other Tutsi exiles in Uganda helped Yoweri Museveni take power in that country.